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...Middle Atlantic "Model Assembly of the League of Nations," an annual assembly of U. S. college students, met at Bucknell University and was embarrassed. Delegate Jerome I. Aron of France (i.e.,Haverford College) summed the situation up in impeccable French, translated by an interpreter with a strong French accent: "Ze League eez an illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Eez an Illusion | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Each House of the U. S. Congress has a chaplain; each pays its chaplain $1,680 a year. His only duties: a prayer at the beginning of each day's session. Senate Chaplain Ze Barney Thorne Phillips* and House Chaplain James Shera Montgomery each have one funny name and a sonorous baritone. Both are popular, convivial; both officiate at more Congressional funerals (no extra pay) than at weddings and baptisms. Chaplain Phillips, 63, Episcopalian, has held office for twelve years, conducts a Washington parish on the side. Chaplain Montgomery, 74, Methodist, has been on the job in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Capitol Prayers | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Phillips does not know why he is named Ze Barney, believes it is an old Norman surname of which he is the only living possessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Capitol Prayers | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Godd saive aour Grechieuss Kinng, Long laive aour nobeul Kinng, Godd saive ze Kinng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warning to Dictators | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...With urgent haste," cried Defense Minister Albert Devèze in Brussels last week, "Belgium must prepare for an invasion even more sudden and devastating than that of the Germans in 1914. All countries, including Great Britain, consider the danger of a war a reality at this juncture. A sudden and powerful invasion is an imminent possibility. Today many military experts recommend military invasion without notice or declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Another Invasion? | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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