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The Story the Week Has Told

tian plan. adopted the slogan, "For a
Goddess Moscow, for a Goddess Collec-
ttvized Village" On the occasion Of the
fifth anniversary of the institution of
militant godlesSness," an "anti-God
mass" is to be celebrated and high
carnival will be held art, literature
and the theater will be mobilized,"
under the orders of the league.
All Kulaks are to be deported from
regions of full collectivization" (their
property having been confiscated) to
remote places, either uninhabited or
grieVously lacking in laborers."
1t is said that there are 5000
kulak families in the Russias.
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IRAQ AND NEJD-On February "A.
somewhere in the Persian Gulf, guests
OF Sir Francis Humphreys, the new
British high commissioner in .Iraq, on
board the British sloop Lupin, King
Feisal of Iraq (Col. Lawrence's very
great friend and coadjutor) and Ibn
Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of
HeJaZ Cthe same whom the lamented
Capt Shakespeare drew to the allied
side in the Great War;, signed a treaty
OF arbitration and friendship between
their respective countries. thus ending,
1t is to be hoped, a protracted border
war. The treaty provides for outlaw
ing of tribal raiders; extradition of flu
gitives from justice; settlement by ar
bitration of disagreementS concerning
the Interpretation of the treaty: estab-
iishment of a permanent frontier COM
mission, ETC.
It is said that the most beautiful
antique courtesy marked the confer
ence. King Feisal declared that he
wished an end to the ancient feud be-
tween his house and that of Ibn Saud,
and 1bn Saud expressed hearty concur
renee. The Sultan was conveyed
ashore on a British boat, from the
masthead of which huttered his green
flag with the Arabic inscription: There
Is only one God and Mohammed is his
prophet" The British know how to
do this sort of thing.
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SANTO DOMINGO.-They have been
rowing 1t again in the Dominican Re-
public. On February 26 revolutionary
forces gained complete control of
Santo Domingo the capital. and Presi-
United States legation. Mr.. Charles B.
Curtis, our Minister, undertook the Of
flee of intermediary between the inSur-
gents and the government or, If you
please, the late government. The oc-
cupation of the capital was bloodless.
The development is ascribed to the an
nouncement by President Vasquez of
candidacy for reelection as President,
elections being scheduled for May. He
is charged with violating pledge in
so doing, and the insurgents demanded
the setting up of a provisional govern
ment with a view to honest elections.
Senior Urena, one of the chiefs of the
instruction, has assumed the ONCE of
provisional President.
UNITED STATES.-George Haven
Putnam, head of the publishing firm of
G. P. Putnam's Sons and dean of Amer
lean publishers, is dead at 86. He
served in the Civil War, reaching the
grade of major. He was notable
man, a redoubted champion Of interna-
tional copyright, of Anglo-American
friendship, of free trade, of the League
of Nations and of domestic political
bettermentS.
Princeton is establishing a School
of Public and International Affairs"
While, of course, seeking to give fun
damental background for a better I'M
Outstanding of the new movement in
national and world affairs" the school
will have for its chief raison d'etre the
special training of men who expect to
enter public life. It is thus differen-
tiated from the School Of International
relations being established at Johns
Hopkins, whose object is to carry on
research work in international affairs
and to train teachers in that field.
Princeton, which has figured very prom
mently IN both the intellectual and