THE LEAGUE: Superman!

In Geneva last week a thick-spectacled Turk, near-sighted Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi, presided over the Council of the League of Nations. Absent but up for scrutiny was Germany.

If a single Council member, even remote Chile or puny Denmark which is almost under Adolf Hitler's thumb, could be found to approve Germany's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, then the Council could not so much as rebuke Germany, for the Council can act only by unanimity.

To help Councilmen make up their minds, Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, roly-poly Soviet Foreign...

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