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...strategy was its resolution calling for any move to expel the Nationalists to be treated as an "important question," needing the approval of two-thirds of the voting members to pass the General Assembly. Though almost everyone agreed that Peking should be offered a seat this year, many delegations???or so the U.S. reckoned?would be extremely reluctant to put the Nationalists over the side at the same time. The question was: Could the U.S. muster the simple majority of votes necessary to pass the important-question resolution in the first place...
...thought or power but to vote as instructed by the folks at home or the bosses in the hothouse. Planted among them were some of society's finest flowers?Byrds from Virginia, Maryland's Ritchie, New York's Davis. Like Irish potatoes and more noxious growths were the city delegations???Tammany's full-blown ward heelers, micks from Brooklyn and Boston, hybrids from Chicago under the leadership of Mayor Anton J. Cermak, lusty bumpkins from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, and drooping gone-to-seed specimens from the country roadsides of all the States. Beside each delegation, like sticks showing what...
Round Four. By now, of course, negotiations had reached total deadlock. The Latin delegations???maneuvered by M. Briand who himself spoke seldom?had dodged the Snowden attack by treating it as bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making...
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