Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released last month, but so quietly that correspondents covering the Geneva Disarmament Conference failed to note it, was a League of Nations report showing which countries are the worst offenders as exporters of armaments & munitions- or rather which were the worst in 1930, the last year covered by the League's discreet report. World's worst offender was Great Britain which did 30% of the total arms peddling, next France (13%), third the U. S. (12%). The report, extremely conservative, estimated the total volume of the arms traffic in 1930 at only $55,200,-ooo, called attention...
...Republic of Ireland, as in an ark in a rising flood, Intelligence Officer Frank Allen and Brigid, his bride of a year, await the worst, find solace in each other's love. To their farm outside Dublin, used as a carrier pigeon base, come their friend Joe Arigho, Commandant of Home Defense, and his young daughter Catherine, who trains the carriers. They are expecting messages from the front. Allen tries to make his guests easy, is made uneasy himself by Catherine. Just out of a convent, she has strange ideas of martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks...
From the sky, after a terrible flight, come the pigeons with news from the front-the worst. Arigho flies off to join the troops, leaving Allen commandant in his stead. At the Staff meeting in Dublin, measures to meet the crisis are harangued. The politicians, represented in the army by Commandant Malone, want only to pull their chestnuts out of the fire; but Allen, to his own surprise, proposes Catherine's plan. Malone's men accuse him of treason. Before they can court-martial him he escapes with Brigid and Catherine, to the friendly aviation base at Rathdonnel...
...often hidden in the mediocre stuff which has earned the publication its Lampoon reputation, a criticism which can be applied to other undergraduate publications. The monthly has too few readers, partially because it is often hastily judged by those who happen to see it only in its worst moments, partially because it is the traditional goat among the sheep on Harvard's Parnassus, and perhaps because it is not too anxious to be read by the hoi polloi...
...Horror of It" is the most powerful piece of propaganda printed since the war. It is peace propaganda, and unlike the work of those whose business it was fifteen years ago to raise hatred to its worst pitch, this book has every moral sanction in its favor. Everything in it is true, everything is from the pens of those who saw war, or from the cameras which recorded the ghastliness of conflict for the official files of the belligerent powers. As a record of how revolting and how gruesome fighting can be the book has tremendous power to prevent future...