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...SIGHT OF EDEN-Roger Vercel- Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). First-rate yarn about Breton cod-fishermen off the Greenland coast. A French prize novel that for once was well worth translating; with little pictures by Rockwell Kent...
After nearly a week of suspicious sniffing, Argentine Delegate Thomas Le Breton last week received in London his Government's assent and signed the international wheat agreement, drawn up fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 4). By it the exporting countries agreed to divide between them a total export quota of 560,000,000 bushels of wheat for the coming year, and cut their exportable production 15% for 1934-35. The agreement runs until July 31, 1935, provides an advisory committee to adjust quotas. Importing nations agree to lower their tariffs when the world wheat price has reached 63.08? gold...
...bearded old Henry Morgenthau Sr. one day last week stole the show. Vaguely correspondents have been conscious that he, as "wheat adviser'' to the U. S. Delegation, was hobnobbing busily with Canadians, Argentines, Australians, Russians. Suddenly they noticed him pumping the hand of Argentine Delegate Tomas Le Breton...
...Congratulations!" crowed Mr. Morgenthau. "Splendid, Senor Le Breton, simply splendid!" Edging nearer, newshawks got their craws full of a wheat story which carried all sorts of newsy implications, such as possible U. S. recognition of the Soviet Union...
...Argentina fortunately took the Senate on. His instructions to the Argentine Delegation in London, he declared, were to support null efforts to reduce wheat acreage and the Senate be damned! Last week the Senate subsided. In London jubilant Uncle Henry pumped the hand of Argentina's Le Breton, spread his story, rubbed his long bony fingers, declaring "All that remains now is the settlement of actuarial details...