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Senator Gustave de Kerguezec, President of the Naval Committee in the French Senate: " I guarantee in the name of the French Parliament that France will suppress her entire fleet if the other powers will do like- wise." This statement was received in Washington as so much verbiage. With the Washington Limitation ot Naval Armament Treaty still gratified, critics point out that it is indeed a strange moment to make such a suggestion-considering that the limitations agreed to have not been carried into effect...
According to a despatch from Belgrade (capital of Yugo-Slavia) Albanian Mussulmans have decided to break with the Caliphate, suppress polygamy and abolish the requirement for women to wear veils in public. It was also agreed that prayers may be said while standing. Resolutions to this effect were passed by the Albanian Mussulmans' Congress at Tirana...
...election campaign throws light on the measures adopted by the Gov- ernment to suppress unwelcome factions. In the first instance, the Magyars, unwillingly incorporated into Yugo-Slavia; together with hundreds of Turks and Macedonian voters, were swept off the voters' list. Next, opposition manifestoes were confiscated by the Government and unfavorable newspapers suppressed Lastly, the whole gendarmerie was combed out before the elections and reduced as far as possible to the faithful supporters of the Government...
...remedy this situation we must take the South on its own word that the negro is inferior, and we must give him all the education that he can take. We must suppress lynching, because it is an acknowledgment that we, with all our machinery of government, are not ready to apply to the negroes those principles of justice which are our most precious heritage...
...conclusion of the Disarmament Committee at Geneva, announced by Lord Robert Cecil, "that it was impossible to suppress--entirely the use of chemicals and scientific weapons" and that "the only safeguard was to make the peoples of the world understand the horrors that might be expected from such methods," notwithstanding the Root resolution at the Washington Conference forbidding the five powers the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or analogous liquids or materials or devices...