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Summing up. President Roosevelt's envoy told the Brussels Conference...
When rich & pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady announced her engagement last February to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free State envoy to the Vatican, it also became known that she was planning to turn over her huge Manhasset estate, "Inisfada." to the Society of Jesus, sell off its reputedly brilliant collection of art. Fortnight ago a posse of New York dealers and collectors' agents trekked through the fragrance of a Long Island spring to "Inisfada," paid 50? a head (for charity) to enter the rambling, 87-room Tudoresque structure, took long, thoughtful looks at its contents before the sale...
...Queen Mary, bearing the first contingent of U. S. visitors to the Coronation, prominent among them James Watson Gerard of the official U. S. delegation. The U. S. press, feeling knee breeches unmanly except for sliding bases or playing golf, was in a characteristic, hayseedy dither over whether Special Envoy Gerard would wear court dress. Mr. Gerard, Wartime Minister to Germany, opined that he would...
...Jodo-shinshu sect, founded in Japan 700 years ago. Month ago in the Hompa Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, Abbot Otani, head of the sect, blessed a two-foot image of Lord Buddha, carved of wood and covered with eight layers of gold leaf. Last week an envoy of Abbot Otani arrived in San Francisco with the image, turned it over to Rinban, or Bishop, Kenju Masuyama, the Occidental-looking head of some 50,000 U. S. members of the Jodo-shinshu sect...
This was an evidence of industry-mindedness on the part of Ambassador Davies which Soviet officials have seen in no previous envoy to their Union. He is in fact the first to make even a quick inspection tour of an important section of Red Industry. Typical of 99% of the Moscow diplomatic corps are the British who carry on with a dimly-lit Embassy front hall in which concealed lamps floodlight full-length oil paintings of King George V & Queen Mary in the most elaborate of royal robes. Nobody in the British Embassy sees any more than he can help...