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Roosevelt's First Assignment.
Among the various guesses re- garding Mr. Franklin Roosevelt's attitude towards the questions of the hour one thing may be anld with certainty. He will be popular with journalists.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1932.
CHAMPION OF PEACE
BRITAIN CONSISTENT
IN HER POLICY
AMERICA PLACED IN DIFFERENT LIGHT
not to the interest of the Unit- ed States to arbitrate it." But the Senate persisted in its reservations, despite President Taft's earnest uppenls.
The eight volumes of "British He has been one himself. Among Documents on the Origins of the his list of achievements is the en- War" is a book that, if it were try: "1903, editor of the Harvarda biography instead of history, 'Crimson.""
He obtained the editorship of of a blameless life in eight hun- might be described as "the record this undergraduates' journal in andred large pages.” ainusing 'way. As his first assign-
The documents relating to An- It offers little ment ho was sent to interview the
excitement glo-American relations, like those late President Eliot of larvard on tive to the thrill of historical ex-are really more significant in their even to the reader who is sensi-that deal with European, affairs, his political views. Presumably the
Thiey
Continental Suspicion.
job was in the nature, of a rag," ploration. He will rarely feel tone than in their text. for regulations forbade members of here that sense of drama, of mo- offer such a pleasing contrast of the "Crimson" staff to interview mentous currents converging to spirit to the suspicious, jealous, the president.
a cataclysmic issue, which was and often malicious note that is Mr. Eliot rebuked the amateur re-created by some of the earlier struck in many of the pre-wor porter, but informed him that he volumes. The very title of the diplomatic documents that have would support Mckinley. The volume, "Arbitration, Neutral- been, published in Continental "Crimson" splashed the
ity, and Security," gives the clue countries since the war. They which was taken up by every news not only to its contents but to reveal British diplomacy as gen- agency in the States,
their tranquil nature.
uinely seeking peace by accommo→
news.
Roosevelt's path to the editorial chair was clear.
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Yet if insignificant in one dation, not merely manoeuvring sense, it is perhaps the most for position. Even when slight significant in another. That sig-lapses from this spirit creep into The Prince at Magdalen. nificance is likely to impress it-the comments of subordinates, The Prince of Wales dined in self gradually on the mind of the wisdom and balance of the Hall at Magdalen recently.. His those, probably few, who take statesman
is seen correcting welcome was very different from his the trouble to read through this them. reception as a freshman twenty massive collection of letters and So unblemished is the attitude
minutes.
shown that it might seem too
years ago.
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Then, the dons were so determined For in it, running through it good to be true. But the reputa not to appear impressed by the rank like an interwoven thread, is to tion of the editors, Dr. Gooch and of their pupil that Max Beerbohm be caught the essential spirit of Dr. Temperley, is sufficient con- drew a cartoon entitled "No fun- British policy in the years before tradiction of any such suspicion, keyism at Magdalen," in which the the war. A spirit that is patent- especially in view of the condition done of Christ Church were shown by pacific, watchful to remove bits on which they accepted the bowing low before their undergrad of grit from the cogs of civili charge that they would "resign lady's name was Emily. Milton while the dons of Magdalen turn-
uate Prince (King Edward VII.), sation.
if any attempt were made to in- had wrapped her name up dark-ed their backs to the present Prince tive, yet ever ready to cement the or essential"
Never perhaps boldly construc-ment which is in their view vital
sist on the omission of any docu ly and in a bookish manner; but of Wales. worthy of the name, and it was Common Rooms that on his arrival to avoid building any castles in there was only one nobil varco
to history. To The story is told in other Senior ing-place of nations, and careful task this volume bears witness.
crevices or cracks in the dwell their other qualifications for the situated, according tothe the Prince was summoned by his the air. geographers open to Milton, in tutor. Lionel Smith, who explained cifically purposeful.
A practical polity, pa-) the eastern part of the district the College regulations:
The worst between Rimini and Piacenza, luncheons only are served in under was its slowness, at a time when "Cold that could be charged against it Signor Mussolini has made called Emilia and in parts the graduates, rooms, but if you are clouds were gathering fast. good use of a holiday. While
valley of the Reno; while one visited by your father and nfother paying a visit recently to his
work seventeenth-century home at Forli it occurred to him signates the Rubicon itself as
de-you may order a hot luncheor.." to settle once for all the where the fluvius Aemiline, Whether abouts of the Rubicon, a stream Milton could have possibly known which, for all its importance in as much as Signor Mussolini may history and in metaphor, has well be questioned, and for un- been hitherto difficult to locale ravelling his poetic allusion it exactly. At any rate, there have is of rio consequence. But it is cling to a £I note. been many disputes and rival pleasing to think that the most would tell me how they manage it. discomforting resemblance, not theories about it. Everybody winning of Englishmen who ever
Your Daily Smile.
a
Violation of Belgium. The only parts that have any terest are those relating to Bel- approach to a mild sensational in- gian and Swiss neutrality. We Storms rise quicker. than learn that in 1908 Sir Edward
toy, tranquil ́atmosphere spreads. The Grey asked for guidance as "climatic" difficulties that hinder Britain's obligation under the peaceful construction are here Treaties of 1839, Mr. (later Sir) well illustrated in the documents Eyre Crowe, then Senior Clerk relating to the second Hague at the Foreign Office, at the end Millions of germs are said to Peace Conference of 1907. These of a long memorandum, defined
I wish they protracted discussions have it thus:
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"Great Britain is liable for the maintenance of Belgian neutrality whenever either Bel- gium or any of the guarantee ing Powers are in need of, and demand, assistance in opposing its violation.".
DIFFICULT.
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can ascertain roughly where It went to Italy had studied the If Tradition is True. was; maps frequently indicate it whereabouts of the Rubicon so
eva. There is no blacker outlook In though not too precisely but carefully. He would have been a page boy's life than a covered visitors have always had a diffì-
thoroughly qualified, culty in finding it, and, as over
is to be feared the birthplace of Homer, various tourists
a it key-hole. not many
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·HA, HA, HA!
communities have vied for the preciate the
are -to-day, to ap
finer points
of
The Study Of Food. itest.
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honour of identifying it with Signor Mussolini's identification. tries must be judged by the sound The Chancellor says that coun- their stream. Now the contro-
ness of their finances. The asset versy is stilled. Signor Musso lini, after careful researches of his own, and with the help of others, has decreed that it is the Fiumicino at Savignano, and he recently published a book entit- has had signposts put up ac-led "Vitamins: A Survey of Pre-back. This, of course, means cordingly, to the joy of local sent Knowledge." It is a sub-more stable employment. patriots, and others who are hot stantial work and affords evi-,
The Medical Research Council
NATURALLY, The horses is said to be coming
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merely in their, unfruitful dura- tion, to those during 1982 at Gen-
Arbitration With America. In this volume, also, we can follow the more promising, yet While emphasising the "dif- : how easily hindered, pursuit of a ficulties of execution," he con- the United States. Capping con- ficient ground, legally or morally, General Arbitration Treaty with cluded that they were "no suf versations between Mr. (later for repudiating an obligation Lord) Bryce and President Taft, freely undertaken, though they Sir Edward Grey wrote to the may justify extreme caution in former in March, 1911:
choosing the mode and time of "We are very anxious to have action,"
an arbitration treaty which A minute by Sir Charles Har- shall bear on the front of it an dinge (Lord Hardinge of Pens- article stating that, however hurst), the Permanent Under- . grave a dispute between the Secretary, suggested that our ac two countries may be, it shall tion "must necessarily depend be settled by arbitration, and upon our policy at the time.... not by war. The moral effect Supposing that France violated of such a statement would be the neutrality of Belgium in a considerable, and would, 1 war against Germany, it is.... think, increase....The exam-doubtful whether England or ple would spread,. and...would Russia would move a finger to have a real effect on armaments maintain Belgian neutrality," and the "moral" of interna- whereas "the converse would be. tional politics."
the case" if.
for certainties. Not that anyone dence, by its mere bulk, of the Tweedledumb and Tweedledccp. would wish to question the ac- rapidity of growth of one of the Mr. Baldwin, who never says curacy of the finding; the weight youngest of the sciences. A nuffin; and Mr. MacDonald, who of authority must rest with the study of the contents suggests never says nuffin you can under- Dace, who can have been actunt that never again, perhaps, will
stand. ed only by the desire to reach it be possible to comprehend the the truth, but it is not often that whole of
That's Easy. modern knowledge academic differences are resolv-about food within this compass. "What," asks a correspondent, ed so finally by power from on The vitamins now known to exists the best thing to take for a head- high. The Rubicon may now are A, B, C, D, and E. But the Fache?" Whisky the night. be consider itself, like Rome under B vitamin appears in the pre- fore: Cicero's consulship, fortunate to sent work under the title of the
Nor was desire lacking on the violator Germany were the have been born again under so"Vitamin B Complex," and it isAnd Spille, Smile, Smilet
other side of the Atlantic. But The Foreign Secretary added masterly a father of his country.shown that five separate ele The Army of to-day goes by internal difficulties delayed its the comment, "I am much oblig Henceforward the ancient des-ments, B1, B2, B3, B4, and motor-coach. But bet your life that realisation. One factor
was ed for this useful minute; I think criptions of it will become all the B5, and an element called "the Y the next war, as in the last, American dislike of the Anglo- it sums up the situation very more interesting. Lucan's factor," have been recognized. they'll need all the coaches for the Japanese alliance. This volume well, though Sir, C. Hardinge's splendid lines, for instance, It is evident that the study of prisoners to ride about in and we shows how careful were British reflection is also to the point" about its modest flow in summer so complicated a subject must
shall. have to walk, and turbid force in winter under soon become divided into special the rainy blasts from the, Alpine branches. The Medical Research
Facts You Did Not quarter, though it was easily Council is to be congratulated on
Know. fordable on that momentous day work which is rich in scientific in January, 49 B.C., will become interest and possesses an in- Newfoundland's only coalfield all the more quotable. "Crossing mediate importance. Here is known to be of possible utility is on the Rubicon is, indeed, too an- the science_of_wise and the west coast near St. George'a cient and after centuries of use healthy eating set out in and is estimated to contain 2,000 still too valuable a phrase to be plain language. If there is 000 tons of minable coal. lightly given up. Only a very much that is difficult to under-p
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few years ago the location of the stand in the book, there is more Having a wheel at one end and river was discovered to be the which is easy. That the book handles at the other, a new Tawn key of a literary mystery shared deserves the attention of the seat can be moved like a whcel by England and Italy, Milton, in general public is beyond dispute, barrow and by lowering the back his youth, wrote one of his for it offers to its readers ways can be converted into a chaise- Italian sonnets to a young lady of protecting themselves against longue. "whose name honours "the disease and of maintaining their
AS STOWAWAYS.
statesmen in renewing the al- liance to eliminate any risk of be- BRITISHERS FOUND ing drawn into a possible conflict with the United States. Indeed, while anxious for practical rea- sons to preserve the alliance, they Come Here Aboard S.S. put it second to the cementing of
Red Sea. Anglo-American concord...
Thus, in a telegram to our Am bassador in Tokyo, April 7, 1911 Graham Hills, of Johannesburg and Victor James Cooks and Percy Sir Edward Grey emphasised that Rhodesia, respectively, were brought there would be the
"gravent objection to allow any Kowloon Police Court yesterday Japanese Alliance to be an ob- stacle for four ears to an un-South Africa to Hong Kong on on a charge of stowing away from limited Arbitration Treaty with the steamer Red Sea, of which the America. Bank Line are the local agents. The limitations and exceptions Inspector Rozenkwy, stated that
before Mr. H. R. Butters at the
flowery vale of Reno and the bodies in fitness. Sound growth, Dough mixed under the rays of rose from the other side. And the Red Sea arrived in Hong Kong noble ford." The nobil varco good teeth, well-formed bones an ultraviolet lamp in experiments proposed Senatorial amendments on Christmas Eve direct from was none other than the Rubicon, these are among the benefits in England was found to produce stretched so far in trying to South Africa. Both men were as the late Dr. J. 8. Smart, o' which the new science of food lighter and whiter bread than dough cover the rock of the Monroe Doc-discovered on board after the ship Glasgow, most ingeniously, found offers to those who take the prepared in the ordinary way. trine that Sir Edward Grey was had left on November 25, they had out; and he was enabled to prove trouble to understand it. At Album driven to remark thereby that the Italian sonnets present much of the money on For making now soles for shoes were not written in Italy as had food is mis-spent, and the cook or repairing, holes in them a plastic been always assumed, but in too often spoils the broth for compound has been invented that is England, long before Milton's want of knowledge about the spread on the leather with a knife, Italian Journey, and that the broth's qualities of nutrition. hardening in a few hours.
It seems to me that Root's bollers Since then, they had been words are so wide that they working on board ship and had done are almost tantamount to say their duties satisfactorily. ing that nothing ia to be arbi- A fine of $25, or two weeks, was trated under the Treaty if it is imp
best hidden themselves behind the