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...replies from such French satellites as Poland. Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. Significance. The game of debating the European Union will go on for years, with Aristide Briand as Perpetual Toastmaster. The kudos he will gain as the apostle of Peace may prove of great value when it comes time?next year???to elect a President of France. That shrewd and shaggy B'rer Briand is grooming himself for election as President of France everyone in Paris now knows for sure...
Sure are the Lords that their wisdom is superior. Last week by a smashing vote they gave the dole bill a cuff and a kick, tacked on an amendment making it expire in one year???whereas the Labor Government is pledged to keep the dole high indefinitely...
...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year???by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
...Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial losses far greater than £2,000,000 a year?...
...year trotted out on the gridiron to do what the coaches expected of him. No empty-headed bruiser, he made a place for himself in the Varsity rush-line. (In those days there were no prissy eligibility rules; a man could play from his first to his last college year???and even after.) Sweating and grunting Rusher Heffelfinger helped to roll Yale over Princeton 10 to 0. The next year his team crushed Harvard and the third year overcame Princeton again...