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...think it is absurd to suppress caricatures of well known pictures...
...University authorities would never take such action against the Lampoon as Boston University officials used to suppress the Beanpot, B.U.'s comic magazine," declared Professor G.B. Chase '96 last night...
...Declaration by opium -smoking countries that they will entirely suppress the habits within 15 years after the smuggling menace has been removed...
...facts of the case are these," he said, "a part of our people revolted--we tried to stop them. What would you do if the negroes of your country should start an armed rebellion? Just what we did--suppress it. No massacre of the Armenians was ordered; there was no deliberate, systematic killing of Armenian Christians; the massacres that flourish in your papers are in reality battles where the Turks try to bring back a rebellious part of the people...
Lord Cecil's comment (subsequently indorsed by France- and the Netherlands) on the U. S. plan was, in effect, "Impossible! The time's much too short." Briefly, the noble lord wanted 15 years in which to suppress opium smoking, but he did not want that period to begin "until a date on which the effective execution of measures taken 'by China to suppress the growth of the opium poppy has reached such a stage as to remove the danger of opium smuggling from China into those territories...