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Bamboo whips, bayonets, machine guns and the guillotine were not enough. As a final effort Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud was in Hanoi last week to do what he could to settle the growing unrest in French Indo-China...
...speaker neatly manipulated chalk and eraser to convert DEPRESSION into PRESS ON; from others came vague assurances that business is upping, but in its final meeting the convention adopted a significant report recommending drastic economies in club operation, euphemistically referring to "this period of men tal and spiritual unrest." ROBERT L. HUTCHISON Joplin, Mo. Dirt-Doubers Sirs: Sapient Bermudans who foretell the hurricane season in Bermuda by observing spiders weaving their skeins on low bushes instead of up in tree tops, as told in TIME, Sept. 21, have nothing on Negroes living on either bank of the muddy Roanoke River...
...decision of the English coalition cabinet to hold a general election on October 27 is directly opposed to the statement of two weeks ago that any political unrest would be unfavorable to the best solution of the present economic difficulties. The cause for this seeming inconsistency is undoubtedly that the government feels, since the withdrawal of the Labor party's support, that the cabinet's strength is not sufficient to establish the proposed reforms. Thus at the cost of a few days of uncertainty, the government seeks a more permanent and secure stabilization...
...lowering of age limits six million votes are added to the electorate. This now element combines with the very unrest which is bringing on the election to make the outcome undeterminate. The Labor party, at present the largest faction in the House of Commons, is conceeded a chance for victory. Since the calming hand of MacDonald has been removed, the platform of the Laborites has become more radical. Now the party has announced its firm belief in socialism as the only real solution for all the evils caused by capitalism and unregulated competition. It proposes as a remedy governmental control...
...there could be a real rapprochement between France and Germany, not only in words but in action, that would remove, I world." believe, 75% of the political unrest of the world...