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...told, the volumes make a wonderfully cranky, talky, valuable record, as honest as daylight, as native as Congress gaiters and a black string tie. The latest installment is probably the crankiest and talkiest of the lot: a huge collection of clips, quotes, yarns, letters, anecdotes, poor jokes, explanations and refutations. The arrangement is roughly chronological, pointed up with oldtime editorial subheads ("A Doubting Thomas Converted," "Are Dreadnaughts Doomed?"), illustrated with practically a national gallery of photographs and political cartoons...
When U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim arrived in Cuba, one of the crankiest, most vexatious problems he found waiting settlement was a $9,000,000 real estate claim of U. S. citizen Joseph E. Barlow, long-time Havana resident and land promoter (TIME, April 29 et seq.). For ten years Mr. Barlow, at times irascible, had been pressing the U. S. Government for justice from Cubans he claimed had stolen his property. Last week Ambassador Guggenheim thought he had found a method of settlement. Citizen Barlow balked at the arrangement...