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22 different ways, all different from Treaty a year ago has under-strength the English chasable ornament mined the whole structure of She is exercising this right Inaval limitation laboriously with so much energy that the built up at Washington in 1921-appearance in the North Sea of It is one of the penalties of running with its original works is THE DICTIONARY KING
122, and reinforced by the Lon-ja fleet one-third as large as our
don Three-Power Treaty a world-wide commerce and the the parish clock of Fye, England.
offown, but infinitely more modern consequent political interests Work on-the-clock began 420 years Sir William Craigie, who is 1930.
fin design and construction, is a combined with a profession of age, but it was not finished matil Professor of English at the Uni-Both of these covenants ex-raatter of a few years only.
Since then it has ticked versity of Chicago, may almost be pite at the end of this year and general amity, that any nation 1560
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North Sea Vital Area that gets into a difficulty, whe-way without a stop, except for described as the dictionary king.
are replaced be ther by its own action or mere minor adjustments, and keeps per- He was for many years joint times, by new safeguards the This new fact is bound to ly by misfortune, expects Great fect time to this day, after 375 editor with Dr. C. T. Onions of the way will be left open for un-effect a radical reorientation of Since Britain to come to its aid. And years. The clock is simplicity it- Oxford Dictionary, and he is now restricted competition in naval British naval strategy.
the war the Admiralty_staff has when two nations quarrel or self. cost a mere $15.00 to make, editing an "Historical Dictionary armaments. have divergent interests, and and the inventor received exactly of the American Language." The root principle of the sys been much more interested in both expect our assistance, it is $1.65 for his invention. The clock The present section of the Scot-item of control established in the Mediterranean, impossible to avoid incurring is powered by a 24 foot pendulim, tish work is the fifth. The first 1922 is fleet limitation by ratios. East, and other distent zones the suspicion of perfidiousness which hangs down inside the appeared in November, 1931 Atsubdivided into ship categories than in home
Now, ito one or other, or both. The church, and makes 25 beats to the the present rate of progress it will Thus, in the Washington Trea-however, the North Sea is re-
recent disastrous attempt to
take about 20 years more to com-ty, the British and American serting to its former, status as plete the dictionary, which is to Davies were placed on a footing a strategic area of cardinal in- prove friendship to France has drawn an avalanche of suspicion
of equality; Japan was allotted portance: sppear in 25 parts.
three-fifths of their respective It would be imprudent to from everybody else, while France,
aggregates, and France and overlook the fact that, whereas so far from having
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Italy each received a tonnage Germany is free to mass achieved any confidence in our
the A six-horse hearse. with
allowance slightly above one-whole of her feet in the North good-faith, is still smarting postilion in black and gold Every.
Seen Worse
third of the maximum figure. Sea, our world-wide commit from a sense of injury inspired headed the funeral procession The sad-looking man in the tene
Conference's First Task
ments compel us to keep the the naval understanding when Mrs. Rebecca Powell 75. ament area leaned over the banisters with Germany made only a few giper Bower-seller, was buried at could disappear down a hole in the
and caught the visitor before shej
major part of our naval force Until 1930 these ratios appli in the outer seas. months ago. It is still doubt- Mitcham, Surrey, last mouth staircase.
ed only to capital ships and air-sent moment, for example, out At the pre- iful whether the situation can Twelve horsed carriages and two "I wonder," said the visitor, indig-craft-carriers. but in that year of a total of 35 cruisers in be completely saved and COD-motor-cars followed, and behind mantly, he landlord doesn't do they were extended to cruisers, full commission only four fidence restored, but it is at walked over 100
something "to repair this wretched destroyers, and submarines injattached to the Home Fleet- mourners, tte least clear that only the jet-imes in blue reefer jackets and the "Well," said the siam dweller. To the case of Britain, the United
It is fully recognised that: tisoning of Sir Samuel Hoare women in furs and plumed hats was going to do something about it States, and Japan. France and raval limitation on the ratio land his scheme of conciliation
until he want on a tour to Naples Italy did not accept this exten-system is moribund, and cannot made it possible to save even people of the "land of the and saw the rains of Pompeii. Now sion, and since 1930 both Powers be resuscitated.
have added largely to their the present Conference,
Therefore, at the chance of regaining the dollar that what they most he thinks this isn't too bad each leadership of public opinion need is an understanding of
fleets of light surface craft and British Government has sug- which had been laboriously what a dollar is. Yet that is
Now It Can Be Told
submarines. Inevitably, there-igested an alternative formula, the bedrock fact of the situa
"Oatmeal, ostmes every day outfore, the proposed scale of re-which was outlined in Parlia meal!! lamented Wilhe But it is interesting to watch tion.
"Yes" said Fred no wonder they completely upset
lative naval power has been ment on July 22 by the First the same traditional suspicion The present position of the call it a serial
Lord of the Admiralty: of perfidy at work in the nar-Silver Purchase Act transac-
It will be the first task of the rower field of finance, in wäich tions is that a special Banking-
Conference to establish a new we are at the moment very Syndicate has had to be arrang-
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the
enormous" "natural wealth to one fourth of the gold bul- and manufacturing plant of the lion. Neither limit was ever States, there is nothing to be practically attainable, uniess said, but the experimental ad-the Treasury had been willing ventures of the Treasury have to buy silver wth gold, as it bas aimed at a complete control of done on a small scale "în its the world's finance, and the ob-deal with Mexico. The amount stacle in the way has always of gold at the end of the year been the open London market. (exceeded £2,000,000,000 This is of course interpreted as value. The amount of silver deliberate treachery, but trea-would have had to be four thou- (chery to what obligation? sand and a half million ounces, There is of course the war debt which is twenty-five times the But there is not really any rea-sum of the world's total annual son why the British war debt production. At current price it should have been treated dif- would have been worth £667,- - ferently from others. We are 000,000. All that money would supposed to have defaulted vo-have been simply locked up, for luntarily, when the fact is that the gold provides all the cover. la few more payments of gold needed for the paper dollar, and bullion would have made trade as much again. The highest over a large part of the world London - quotation for silver impossible, and would have done during last year, when the far more injury to American States were buying large quan- foreign trade than the terrible tities, spot and forward, was slump which actually occurred three shillings and a farthing. The price of gold would have When the Treasury confined been raised still more rapidly, purchases to "spot" it "becomes there would have been no other impossible to quote a price for medium, and the failure to pay “forward," and spot fell to two public debts would have been shillings and twopence. capped by the failure to pay What the brokers had over- private debts.
looked was that there was no It is equally useless to point time-limit "fixed for reaching out that the "Brains Trust” as the maximum, and it was at a whole for there is no com-the option of Mr. Morgenthau mon purpose guiding the Washto postpone it to the Greek ington Departments, which Kalends. He was therefore | often pursue contradictory poli- left in complete command of the cies — learned nothing from silver market, and in self- [their experience with gold, and defence the silver-using coun- jrepeated the same folly with tries had to abandon their silver. Even their own bankers standard. The lowest modern and brokers are now pointing price of silver was one stilling that out with great emphasis an ounce, and at a commodity They will not be listened to, for value there is nothing, to pre- the sweeping denunciations of vent it from dropping again to the popular orators of the that level. It would suffice for Radio are just as suspicions of the Treasury to stop purchas "Wall Street as they are of ing, and if there were any at- England Nobody with any tempt to sell things would be Radio celebrity has yet had the worse.
courage to tell the people that Where in all this does the they have been entirely misled "perfidy of the English," of as to the fimction and the pro- which they are accused by per use of money. It does seem Father Coughlin and the silver abward to set out to ten the Senators,
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"We have had to give up the said) the idea of ratios, and in
are we must go in for the prin ciple of programmes. We have abandoned the principle of asking naval Powers what the ultimate strength of their movies is to be. and instead are asking them what size they will be in 1942 can then pool these replies, and by agreement accommodate these various naval strengths in such a
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