Foreign News: Soldiers for the Saar

Below the rose-colored cliffs of the Dolomites and in the fishing villages near Trieste, Italian citizens argued volubly in German about the Saar last week. Benito Mussolini was about to provide nearly 2,000 of them with temporary jobs there.

Heeding finally the frantic requests of the League's Saar Commissioner Knox and his Chief of Police that a fair plebiscite in January will be absolutely impossible without additional police, the League decided to recruit its first private army. Ever since the League was founded the loudest argument of its opponents has been that it would...

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