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...Undress Dickering." The full-dress opening of the Conference was admittedly unimportant. Undress dickering and secret deals were already going on behind the scenes. British papers printed stories of an accord, said to have been reached by steel producers in the Mother Country and steel consumers in Canada, looking to the shutting out of U. S. steel from the Dominion which bought $168,000,000 worth during the year ending March...
Knowing observers realized some weeks ago that it was nearly time for another Fascist shift, and last week came particular reason for Il Duce to be displeased with his Foreign Minister. Dino Grandi was a delegate to Lausanne, yet the Franco-British Accord de Confiance was apparently as much of a surprise to him as it was to editors in the U. S. The accord contained a joker particularly unpleasant to Italy: a deeply buried hint of Franco-British naval accord in the Mediterranean. Benito Mussolini dealt gently with his deposed Grandi. Day after his removal was announced, Grandi...
...when entreated by the British to give at least their private opinion on the attitude which U. S. public opinion, Congress or the President might be expected to take toward the Lausanne program* they had advised the British against taking any step resembling the gentleman's agreement or the Accord de Confiance...
...Heckled as to the exact meaning of the Lausanne settlement, gentleman's agreement and Accord de Confiance last week Premier Herriot told the Chamber flatly: "They mean that Frenchmen cannot be asked to pay more than they receive...
Next chief delegate to land (at Montreal) was Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Bristling, he told Canadian newshawks that, in view of the Free State's present quarrel with the Mother Country, his delegation had no hope of reaching an accord with the No. 11Delegation at Ottawa but hopes to sign accords with the dominions...