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After three good weeks of work and parties in beauteous Buenos Aires, the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.) ended with 69 projects approved and this able summing up by a Brazilian delegate: "The United States at last has joined the Pan-American family! Now we can do something and we are going to do it. Watch for even more surprising results at subsequent Inter-American and Pan-American conferences. This is just a beginning...
...blame for his own kidnapping and that the kidnappers had let him go partly because they had been much moved by reading some 50,000 words of his private daily diary covering 1936. In Oriental eyes there was nothing preposterous about all thisidnapped Premier & Generalissimo's extremely businesslike and beauteous Wellesley-graduate wife, Mme Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), left Nanking courageously by plane for the kidnappers' lair at Sian in Central China. With her flew her brother, T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Bank of China, and that enigmatic Australian "adviser," William H. Donald, who has been attached...
...jitters in the hands of Austrian doctors seemed exactly news (see p. 31). In a formal statement, which badgered Mrs. Simpson released at Cannes, it was stated that "no rift of any sort" had come between herself and the Duke of Windsor. In the Austrian Castle whose chatelaine is beauteous Baroness Rothschild, the Duke several times each day last week telephoned Mrs. Simpson...
...Duke's hostess is beauteous onetime Miss Catharine Wolff of Philadelphia, rated "one of the 20 best-dressed women in the world." She was Protestant with her first husband (a Mr. Spotswood), Roman Catholic with her second (an Austrian count), and espoused the Jewish persuasion to marry her present Rothschild. Queen Victoria piously claimed that the British Royal Family are descended from Biblical David, "King of the Jews," and it was this which caused "David" to be made not only one of the names of Edward VIII but the name by which his family always called...
...last week that heavy insurance on jewels was taken out by Mrs. Simpson before she bolted from Britain to France (TIME, Dec. 14), and in Mayfair dowagers in recent months have said they recognized on Mrs. Simpson the same royal jewelry which lavish King Edward VII bought for his beauteous Queen Alexandra and which she bequeathed to her favorite grandson Edward VIII with the admonition (which probably has no force in law): "For your future queen, David dear...