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...pants off, thus leaving each still with one pair of pants, seemed the likely issue of their conjunction this week in Washington. Last week they had already started being "good neighbors." On the Rex the Australian Premier regretted and proposed to correct the oversight which makes Australia the only Dominion of the Big Four not represented in Washington by its own diplomatic mission. For his part President Roosevelt took note of the oversight which has made Australia hitherto a spot of exile for members of the U. S. foreign service. In Washington it was briskly announced that swank J. Pierrepont...
Since "Mitch" Hepburn's high-handed power policy threatened Ontario's credit at home & abroad, Dominion bankers were naturally incensed. Last week someone in the Hepburn Government blundered, and the bankers got their innings...
...Toronto by plane from the bush, where he had been fishing with-of all people- President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines (gold), "richest bachelor in Canada," and Manhattan's legendary speculator, Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, who is called a "money magnate'' in the Dominion Press. The Government's counter attack was planned at Jack Bickell's home located at Port Credit. "The financial interests undertook to discipline the Government of Ontario because of its stand on the power purchase question," thundered a Cabinet statement. "The challenge is not to the Administration...
...Dominion bankers denied a conspiracy, suavely hinting that underwriting of Ontario obligations was too risky a business. Nevertheless, Premier Hepburn promptly declared war. He spoke darkly of special, if not punitive, taxes on "surplus money," refused audiences to banking emissaries, threatened to withdraw all Provincial balances from commercial banks, announced plans for 30 new branches of the Government-owned savings bank system, upped the system's interest rate from 2% to 2½%, to tempt deposits away from private institutions...
...daring to present the word officially at a Downing St. meeting, Premier Hertzog slyly let the word leak to the Press that his Dominion would recommend that the independent Republic of Liberia be seized by force if necessary and handed over to Germany as a League of Nations mandate. Further, according to Premier Hertzog, the Union of South Africa would hand her mandate of Southwest Africa back to Germany also and would recommend that Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa) be given back to Germany as well...