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...quietly that correspondents covering the Geneva Disarmament Conference failed to note it, was a League of Nations report showing which countries are the worst offenders as exporters of armaments & munitions- or rather which were the worst in 1930, the last year covered by the League's discreet report. World's worst offender was Great Britain which did 30% of the total arms peddling, next France (13%), third the U. S. (12%). The report, extremely conservative, estimated the total volume of the arms traffic in 1930 at only $55,200,-ooo, called attention to the fact that this represented...
...Vajda, then a silent cinema, Service for Ladies with Adolphe Menjou in 1927. Amusing in both versions, its comedy is steadily improving with repetition. Hungarian Director Alexander Korda directed this talking version in England for Paramount, with U. S. money, English actors, cameramen, staff.* Leslie Howard does his usual discreet, effortless, alert job, delivering the bright lines of the dialog as though he habitually talked that way. George Grossmith as a tall, rheumatic, liverish, twinkling ramrod King, is a sly parody of Sweden's Gustaf...
...James Ramsay MacDonald's probable successor. Last week tall, husky-voiced, smoldering-eyed Chancellor Chamberlain of Britain's Exchequer read to a hushed House of Commons the Empire's first sky-high-tariff budget. That speech was sufficiently historic. The obscure happening 22 months ago was Mr. Chamberlain's discreet success in getting himself appointed chairman of the Conservative Party by bumbling Party Leader Stanley Baldwin...
When he addressed the House of Representatives last week War Minister Araki, according to the discreet translator, "employed language so beautiful and flowery that it cannot be translated into English very well...
...Tardieu was proud of having cut his Cabinet down to 13, proud of having rolled Army, Navy and Air into one Ministry of Defense.** Richer in gold than she has ever been before (see p. 17), France is now rushing to discreet completion the most powerful and most adroitly concealed chain of fortresses ever constructed since the world began. In the next nine months alone the new Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean...