In due course, on April 15/17, the Council of the League of Nations examined the alleged breach of the Treaty of Versailles committed by Germany in decreeing universal compulsory military service. The following Powers were represented on the Council: The Argentine Republic, Australia, Great Britain, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S.S.R. All these Powers voted for the principle that treaties should not

In 1933, the students of the Oxford Union, under the inspiration of a Mr. Joad, passed their ever-shameful resolution, “That this House refuses to fight for King and country.” It was easy to laugh off such an episode in England, but in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in Japan, the idea of a decadent, degenerate Britain took deep root and swayed many calculations. Little did the foolish boys who passed the resolution dream that they were destined quite soon to conquer or fall gl

There was also a desire to transmit to the next generation the stimulating spirit of the Renaissance, which many of the New England intelligentsia had received at Cambridge. These interests bore fruit in the establishment of Harvard College, the first college in English America. In 1636, the Massachusetts General Court voted four hundred pounds for the founding of a college. This grant was augmented two years later through a bequest by John Harvard, a minister at Charlestown,