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Surprise! In Albuquerque, N.M., Mrs. William Clayton started to water her flower bed with the garden hose, dropped the thing in a hurry when it turned out to be a sleepy rattlesnake...
...Paris flew Sir Stafford Cripps for a conference with U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton on the leftovers of the U.S. loan. The shocking fact: if Britain keeps withdrawing funds at the present rate, nothing will be left by September. Two of the loan's agreements add to the-dollar drain: 1) the "nondiscrimination" clause, which forces the British to buy goods in the U.S., for dollars, which they might get elsewhere more expensively but for pounds; 2) the "sterling convertibility" clause, which forces the British to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners...
...then through "the support of the United States, which would be decisive." The U.S., not a participant in the conference, remained well in the background. However, the delegates were learning what the U.S. meant by European selfhelp. Ramadier gave a luncheon for U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, who has become the world's foremost foe of trade barriers. After that, the delegates began to talk more about removal of European trade barriers...
William L. Clayton, U. S. Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, has been engaged in conferences with top British officials for several days...
...context of our efforts at Geneva to stabilize world economy, and so minimize the privation and unrest that lead to Communism and possible war, the amendment seems again a bootless move. Undersecretary of State Clayton has felt sufficiently convinced of this to return from Geneva and oppose the amendment...