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...British move at Geneva appears to have been designed to bring all the Court members together for a general agreement, so that neither one nor another might throw a monkey wrench into the machinery for U. S. adherence...
...game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable only in provincials from Idaho and Wisconsin...
...makes a telling point in his parting shot, as he deftly turns the argument toward the independence and importance of the literature of his own country: "The plain fact is that the Republic has cut the painter and has begun to go it alone. There is, no doubt, a wrench. It is, I suppose, painful. But I don't know anything that is to be done about...
...only got a raise of two cents an hour by the transfer; yet when my former companions saw me--with tools--a huge wrench and an oil can--my social standing was "elevated amazingly." Mr. Williams also told the story of a carpenter who went away from a humble job to a position where hours were shorter and pay higher. A fortnight later he returned. "Higher, pay?--yeah. But do you know what they wanted me to do? Bang together a bunch of boards into a ramshackle barn for a target, and one shot from a gun 14 miles...
Russians, attempting to put a cheerful face upon the Soviets' failure to throw a monkey wrench into the Security Pact Conference at Locarno (see INTERNATIONAL) declared: "Germany is signing a commercial treaty at Moscow with her right hand, a forced political agreement at Locarno with her left...