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...constitutional amendment. Speaking in the low, slow, even tones for which he is noted, the Chancellor said the Government had saved the nation from the horrors which further depreciation of the mark would have brought. He warned the Reichstag that tampering with the Government's decrees would undo the good work and start Germany off in a mad career down the abyss of inflation...
...Immigration Committee, pointed out that this contravened our treaty with Japan. He added: "The Japanese are a sensitive people and unquestionably would regard such a legislative enactment as fixing a stigma upon them. I regret to be compelled to say that I believe such legislative action would largely undo the work of the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament, which so greatly improved our relations with Japan...
Yesterday's storm which in the morning poured tons of snow on the University and in the late afternoon attempted to undo its earlier work by pouring on tons more of rain, produced a number of new records on the books of the statisticians...
...Bunka Undo" means literally cultural movement. To the Japanese it signifies the cultural movement of Japanese women along Western lines...
Again a serious proposal is being made to undo the mischief of the tower of Babel and supply the world with a universal language. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate School is the sponsor of the new movement, suggesting simplified Latin as an auxiliary tongue to be used by "the statesman and the traveler, the scholar, the professional man and the business...