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...Actually discreet Prince "Benno" stayed home. Bands blared and standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged...
...Angell's very successful social personality, which has done much to smooth his long academic route and manifests itself at once in the friendly twinkle of his eye, emerged shortly after the Chinese interlude. At the University of Michigan, "Jim" Angell learned to strike a discreet mean between the propriety expected of the president's son, the humanity expected of a normal undergraduate. He became a Phi Beta Kappa and a Delta Kappa Epsilon almost simultaneously. He shortstopped for the baseball team and won the University and State tennis championships. He played a clarinet in the University band...
This sweep left observers surer than ever that, if Governor Landon hurdles the California primaries this week, he can jog in an easy winner at Cleveland. Breaking his discreet silence for the first time with a direct statement on the Republican race, the happy Kansas Governor wired to the Boston Herald: "The splendid Republican vote in Massachusetts should give heart to the entire country. So far as its personal bearing is concerned, I am deeply grateful for the confidence in me that it demonstrates. But I believe it reflects something of more significance than any personal factor...
...agree that Germany should be invited to send a German delegation this week to London. This implied a return to the week's early British wish to hatch new accords with egg-breaking Germany. Simultaneously going forward in London last week were Eden-Flandin conversations of a most discreet character. An indiscreet French underling even said. "Of course it will not be necessary to bring sanctions to bear on Germany if we can get something better...
...refusal to comment on the Republican candidate was typical of Mr. Farley's breezy confidence concerning the reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States. "Oh, that's all right--don't you worry about that!" he replied to a discreet query about the election this autumn. Not a shadow of doubt about the issue was betrayed in the Farley smile and the suave Farley manner as he joked with "the boys...