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...each, speaks volumes for the distance the two onetime enemies have traveled since the War. Up to 1914, trade between the two countries was regulated by the Treaty of Frankfort, which ended the war of 1870-71. Since the World War, there has been no well-defined commercial accord, trade being subject to a general agreement, except in the case of specific articles, on the basis of the customs laws of both nations, which has been governed in turn by certain provisions of the Versailles Treaty...
...accord is not without deep concern to the U. S. There is now every prospect that the duties fixed for German goods in several hundred different categories will soon be applied to U. S. products, and will therefore have an adverse influence on French imports from the U. S. on account of higher U. S. prices and the great shipment distances involved. U. S. businessmen in France were accordingly hopeful that the Franco-German Treaty will have the effect of hastening the conclusion of a U. S.-French treaty, which they feel is badly needed to protect their legitimate interests...
...Accord existed between the parties on fundamental points. 1) The right of the U. S. and Great Britain to naval parity with each other was conceded. 2) These nations were agreed upon a rough working figure at which parity in tonnage could be struck...
Patience was not shown last week by the delegations at Geneva. On the contrary their members seemed weary of negotiation and content to let the Parley gutter out at the forthcoming third plenary session. Meanwhile the chief hope for accord seemed to lie in an agreement between U. S. President Calvin Coolidge and British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now in Canada (see COMMONWEALTH). When this project was broached by newsgatherers to Mr. Baldwin he said...
...dimensional representation on two dimensional canvas; depiction of sky, land, water; desire for self-immortalization in portraiture and self-propulsion in art, as opposed to slavish dogmatism in conception and execution. For such reasons, then, art lovers regard the quartocento and quintocento painters with the same veneration that philosophers accord Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and poets, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil. It was of great moment to them, therefore, when Sir Joseph Duveen, art dealer of England, announced purchase for $3,000,000 of the famed Benson collection, which, better than any other private collection extant, traces the history and spirit of early...