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...pact, by which Persia yielded to Turkey certain bits of her northwest frontier which made it possible for the two states so to deploy their border patrols that the Kurdish tribesmen could be nabbed at-their raiding and the scourge of banditry wiped out. Last week Turkish and Persian statesmen hailed this achievement in toast after brimming toast. They then talked behind their ever-itching palms about British oil, by all odds the juiciest thing in Persia...
...course of being spanned by the line from Bandar Shapur via the Anglo-Persian oil country and Teheran to Bandar Shah. The line will make it possible for the first time to cross Persia by rail. With other railways sprouting throughout the Near East, across Syria and Irak, the statesmen in Dolma Bagtche Palace last week saw spread on their unromantic staff maps the physical symbols of a future United Islam. After taking the final Turkish salute Persia's King of Kings set the wires humming with his reputed farewell words to Ankara's Dictator Kemal...
...London worried Ambassador Davis went around to ask bland, poker-faced Japanese Ambassador Tsune Matsudaira just what Japan now wants. She is known to want naval parity with Britain and the U. S. but her want thus far has been made known by Tokyo statesmen in statements provokingly unofficial. To provoke Mr. Davis is impossible. He smiled understanding as Ambassador Matsudaira professed total, official ignorance...
...make to Germany. In a stiff speech to the House of Commons hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain explicitly threatened to do this, but gave Germany July 1 to mend her ways, amend her moratorium. Since the U. S. sells to Germany more than she buys, Washington statesmen could not take the drastic steps threatened in London and Paris, but the U. S. Embassy in Berlin was ordered to make ''vigorous protest...
...building and more student scholarships. He is glad that two-fifths of Princeton's 2,500 students are earning part of their expenses and wants more poor but brainy students. Overshadowing all other aims, however, is his desire to expand and bolster his social science departments, prepare businesslike statesmen and statesmanlike businessmen for the era of government in business which he is sure is coming. No more radical than Dodds the educator is Dodds the political expert. One of the few things about which he, a Republican, grows publicly passionate is democracy, "the only form of government which respects...