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Second Sunday. As they did the Sunday before, French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet came over to London last Sunday, this time cheered with much greater enthusiasm by English crowds in Whitehall, which rang loudly with La Marseillaise...
Biggest bug in the bonnet of any municipal financier is how much debt his city ought to carry. One school of thought holds that cities should borrow as little as possible, cites Kalamazoo. Mich., which burned its last bond in November 1937. having embarked on a pay-as-you-go policy. The opposite school holds that cities are foolish to pass up the opportunity to make permanent improvements when money is cheap, and especially when Harold Ickes' PWA will give 'outright 45% of the money. Leading middle-of-the-roader is New York City's little Fiorello...
...Paris last week, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Turkish Ambassador Suad Davaz signed an accord on the long-smoldering Sanjak question. For France the accord represented a diplomatic rout, compensated only by the fact that by appeasing Turkey, France has weaned President-Dictator Kamal Atatürk further away from Germany. For Turkey it was a victory for strong-man policies. For Syria, occupation of the Sanjak by Turkish troops means a loss of her one good harbor at Alexandretta. The Sanjak cannot legally become Turkish without League of Nations sanction, but with Turkish troops there it will...
French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet urged Leftist Spain to think twice before sending bombers over Italy, warned Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Government that it could expect little sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts...
Night at Windsor. While the world's cables hummed with such news and Berlin dispatches reported the mood of the German Foreign Office to be "consternation," Statesmen Daladier and Bonnet went out to be overnight guests of King George and Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle where they were lodged in Lancaster Tower, "the most luxurious guest suite." With all males in court dress, a State dinner was served off plates of gold, and the band of the Grenadier Guards played "not only during dinner but afterward in the Crimson Drawing Room...