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Cunning Fidelity. Declared hoary War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the weightiest British analysis of last week: "The League offered Mussolini nothing which he could have accepted without being laughed off the Italian stage-and as for talk of sanctions, II Duce knew the exact weight of the brain and fist of every man with whom he was dealing, and having carefully scanned the figures on the balance, he decided it was a safe chance to defy them...
...diplomacy, if there be such a thing, is not embodied in the League of Nations, despite the rantings of Hearst and Coughlin. Nor is it to be discovered in treaties which will be made public only in autobiographies and memoirs published many years hence. For public opinion--always the weightiest imponderable in democratic nations--will not countenance a return to the devious methods of pre-war Europe. If the recent London Naval conversations, and the talks now in progress between France and England, have any significance, it is the clear manifestation of an attempt to achieve real understanding between...
...that the only adult pianists who will play there this month are Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel. But Carnegie was not too big for Pianist Ruth Slenczynski last week. Three thousand New Yorkers were delighted to pay to hear a child so confident that she will attempt the weightiest music, so pert that she will suggest a different tempo to an experienced conductor like Bernardino Molinari...
...Ambassador Daniels they have found the weightiest approver of Mexico's radical and anticlerical Six-Year Plan. He has called it roundly "a new deal and a square deal!" Moreover, to the joy of Mexican silver interests, President Roosevelt has raised the price of silver. He has also recognized the Soviet Union, considered by Mexicans the spearhead of all that is Godless...
...Weightiest problem brought before the American Medical Association's 30th Congress on Medical Education, Licensure and Hospitals, meeting in Chicago's Palmer House last week, was proposed by a law school dean, Duke's Justin Miller. His problem: "Whether to keep standards, as the law profession has done, so low that the profession is constantly concerned with the problem of eliminating shysters or, as physicians have done, to keep standards so high that the profession is constantly concerned by activities of quacks and fakirs outside...