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...London this Havas dispatch so excited Prime Minister MacDonald that he called Premier Herriot on the trans-Channel telephone and begged him to retract...
Scot MacDonald's excitement was due, of course, to his realization of the effect which the Havas dispatch would and did quickly produce on President Hoover and U. S. public opinion. Havas retracted not one word. M. Herriot obligingly declared that he had been "misunderstood," adding that he meant what he originally said but was referring not to the Accord de Confiance but to the gentleman's agreement. Two days later sword-handy Senator Henry Berenger, who negotiated the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926) and is today Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee...
From Budapest to the New York Times last week flashed the following dispatch concerning a Miss Myrtle Hague Robinson, U. S. journalist touring Rumania...
...ballyhooed, expensive Republican convention starts revolving on its well greased axis. There will be little to disturb the placld sequence of oratory, credentials, temporary officers, resolutions, and the form of nomination; party managers with an eye to lean purses have seen to that. Every effort will be made to dispatch the weary business and send the local delegates a homing by Thursday at the latest...
...present, only dapper little Roy Howard (Scripps-Howard) and Harry Preston Wolfe of the Columbus (Ohio) Evening Dispatch failed to lift an arm. Scripps-Howard chainpapers had vigorously cudgeled the issue when it was before Congress in March. Final agreement of the publishers, however, was that they would support a Sales Tax if the President would personally sponsor...