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"Though I Go to Ruin!" Though Germany announced her withdrawal from the League of Nations when she withdrew from the Disarmament Conference, Chancellor Hitler did not send her actual resignation—not effective until 1935 under the League Covenant—until last week. In Geneva, suave League statesmen remained silent, but Disarmament Conference President Arthur Henderson exploded in a radio broadcast heard by all Europe: "The choice before us is co-operation or conflict, peace or war, progressive disarmament or a mad race to increase weapons. . . . We cannot let world law and order be undermined by international anarchists, whatever the pretext on which they propose to flout the law!" In this case "the law" is the pact which the U. S., Britain and France urged Germany to sign (TIME, Oct. 16), to provide a four-year standstill during which time no European State would increase its armaments, and after which time Germany would receive arms equality with France. Still truculent last week. Chancellor Hitler told a British correspondent in Berlin that Nazi Germany will not wait. "I will never," he cried, "set my signature to a treaty that as a gentleman in private life I also would not sign—though I go to ruin thereby!"
* "Weygand," said Clemenceau, "is sunk in priests to the neck."
* When he took the chair of the late great Marshal Joffre in the French Academy last year General Weygand arrived wearing the gold-frogged Academic uniform of the late, great Marshal Foch which fits him perfectly.
Custom decreed that Weygand, the protege of Foch, must eulogize Joffre, the enemy of Foch, on taking Joffre's seat. "Messieurs!"' cried General Weygand in such ringing parade-ground tones that even aged, deaf Academicians had no need to cup hand to ear. "Messieurs, I had prepared a speech of more than six pages to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table and my dog ate it." When the gale of Academic laughter had subsided, General Max spoke a few words extemporaneously in praise of Joffre, avoided by the stratagem of his "dog'' the hypocrisy of having to pronounce the usual 20-page eulogy.