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...such specialized spellbinders as Big Bill Thompson, Tom Heflin, Cole Blease, Smith Brookhart, and Huey Long, Author Wallis' humor is often dated, with the date somewhere before 1929. And his grave instructions that candidates emulate the more impressive fatuities of eminent statesmen lose much of their sardonic sting when it is noted that most of his examples are chosen from the doings of political has-beens...
...hatred, so convinced is he that war is an inexcusable crime against civilization, that he blinds himself to the fact that men can be sincere in fighting for an ideal, whether or no that ideal be created by propagandists in pursuance of economic interests. Moreover, underlying the bitter sting which is present on every page, there is a current of assumption that had the war been won by Germany, the world would be little different today. Frequently Mr. Millis refers contemptuously to the idea, widely held in the spring of 1917 that if Germany won the War,--bankrupt and depopulated...
...Chairman John Jackson McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee also felt the sting of the President's fretfulness last week. In February, during executive hearings before the Committee, Brigadier General Charles Evans Kilbourne, then Chief of War Plans Division, advanced a plan for seven air defense centres, observing that the one near Canada could be "camouflaged" as an "intermediate station for transcontinental flights." Brigadier General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Chief of General Headquarters Air Force, had declared that in case of war, certain British islands off the U. S. might have to be seized. By a clerical blunder, these...
Instantly Chinese League Delegate Victor Hoo buzzed in to sting the Secretary General. "What does he mean by saying Japan now has no 'obligations'?" asked Dr. Hoo. "It is not for M. Avenol to interpret the Covenant of the League of Nations. In a wide sense he has ventured to contradict Article i, Paragraph 3!" This article provides that a League member may withdraw after two years' notice only if "all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal...
...unhappy M. Avenol winced at this shrewd Chinese sting, zzzz came the Japanese League hornet, Consul General Matsayuki Yokoyama, to sting him on the other flank because he had said that Japan no longer has any League "rights." Agreeing that she has no "obligations" Mr. Yokoyama loudly demanded for Japan well-nigh every privilege she has ever enjoyed at Geneva, except actual membership in the Assembly and Council...