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Thus the League Council is accurately informed what will happen should they give the Saar now to Germany. To withhold it, many Geneva statesmen feared, would touch off a Nazi invasion to seize the Saar. Even the supremely legal mind of Sir John Simon was not attracted, as it normally would have been, by the Treaty of Versailles' proviso that the Saar may be split or diced up into as many parts as the Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give...
...entitled to discuss and weigh the physical fitness of our public servants as well as their morals, patriotism and statesmanship? If not, then...we can safely prophesy that this generation will not pass away before a despot sits in the White House and we can righteously withhold our pity from the milksops, nincompoops and sycophants, who then make up the population, as unworthy of any other fate than to bear the cruel hand of oppression...
...opportunity to show its mettle. At last, after decades of shilly-shallying on unimportant artificial issues, there would be a chance for the voter to express his opinion definitely on an inclusive and yet clear-cut issue. He could support or attack the New Deal, he could give or withhold his approval of the Democratic philosophy of government, as evidenced by the Roosevelt administration. That hope has been blasted. There will be little such rational voting today...
...Omaha the Inventors' Congress was informed by its President Albert G. Burns that he had witnessed a death ray demonstration staged by a Clevelander named Antonio Longoria. Rabbits, dogs and cats, said President Burns, were killed instantly, their blood turned to water. But Inventor Longoria said he would withhold his secret until invasion threatened...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withhold...