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...Myth II, Nominee Roosevelt took three of his four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...
...Conference which authorized the League to stage the World Conference. In London the Press was buzzing with the Lausanne agreement proper and its supplementary "gentleman's agreement" (TIME, July 18). Rising to address the House of Commons. Sir John announced the existence of a third agreement or Accord de Con fiance between the French Government and His Majesty...
Since the Accord de Con fiance soon provoked last week an indignant blast from President Hoover and since Le Temps of Paris called it "the most important international act in recent world history," observers scrutinized the full text...
This confirmed Havas and undoubtedly represented the real views of the French Government last week. L' Ere Nouvelle, personal organ of Premier Herriot, exulted: "The Accord de Con fiance constitutes on the same basis as the Locarno and Briand-Kellogg pacts one of the most important political events on an international scale since Versailles...
Privately French officials called this British statement a mass of weasel words uttered to impress U. S. public opinion but contrary to the letter of the Accord de Con fiance which Britain signed. What Europe owes, they asserted, most certainly "affects the European regime" and is therefore explicitly included in (not excluded from) the purview of the Accord de Con fiance...