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...gleaming Canada House-the Dominion's splendiferous sandstone outpost facing London's Trafalgar Square -representatives of the Big Four wheat exporting powers (U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina) bickered in exasperation last week with a Soviet Russian, bland, obstinate Comrade Abraham Gourevitch...
Frederick John Perry has a sleek appearance, a bland cosmopolitan manner which belies the fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they...
...League of Nations loan to Austria, largely underwritten by France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more especially to the Four-Power Peace Pact recently signed in Rome by Britain, France, Italy and Germany (TIME...
...acting fiscal expert James P. Warburg. The eighth draft he passed. It was transmitted to the President by Professor Raymond Moley who proved, last week, a great disappointment to the Conference. Delegates had hoped they could get down to business with him and really negotiate. Instead Dr. Moley. bland and self-possessed, talked courteously with everyone but made clear that on all major issues the President must be consulted by cable...
...Because the British War Office tried to get them to bite paper cartridges tactlessly greased with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a Moslem fanatic proclaimed himself a redeemer or Mahdi in Egypt 40 years ago, thousands of Egyptians rebelled, left the bland head of Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon stuck on a spike at the gates of Khartoum. Last week because a Swiss headmistress hoisted the skirts and paddled the bottom of naughty Turkiya Hassan at Port Said's Al Salaam Missionary School, Egypt was threatened with still another Holy War. Vexed...