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...British business circles the Soviet rejection of a highly "correct" arbitral award (one in the normal tradition of British jurisprudence and made with the concurrence of a Privy Councilor of His Majesty the King) produced a most lugubrious effect. Cabled one fiscal correspondent, "This outcome is regarded in the financial district as a complete demonstration of the impossibility of working concessions in Soviet territory...
...John's, South Africa, Hubert, a hippopotamus who had waddled 1,000 miles from Zululand, irritated a town councilor by following him into the town hall. Previously, the hippopotamus had waddled about the business district of St. John's on two occasions and had once strolled from his home in the Umzipulu River to Durban, where he entered the lobby of a hotel. Friendly, the hippopotamus is reported to have lost his temper only once, when natives threw stones at him, causing him to charge them, injuring...
Most recent and spectacular of astute Prime Minister Hamaguchi's gestures toward Economy was his toning down of his son's wedding. The bride, petite Miss Aya Mizumachi, is the daughter of a rich Imperial Privy Councilor. Her family had already spent 10,000 yen ($5,000) on wedding preliminaries, were preparing to spend a total of some...
Highly pleased by these suggestions, rich but frugal Privy Councilor Mizumachi proceeded to marry his daughter on the cheap. Last week they were honeymooning at a Japanese inn rated as third class...
...That Councilor Bogomoloff might not occupy his spare time by Russian secret service in Britain, Ambassador Sokolnikov paid a formal visit to Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, gave formal pledges that the Soviet Government would not engage in propaganda either in Britain or in any of the Dominions...