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...Airspeed Envoy monoplane Stella Australis (Star of Australia), an unprepossessing craft in which to attempt the hazardous flight from California to Australia. Her lack of power and last-minute patchwork of fabric, however, failed to perturb Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm, who had made the Pacific crossing in 1928 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in the Southern Cross. Said he: "I don't intend to get my feet...
...envoy of George V publicly urged that the dollar and the pound be pegged together, no doubt would exist that His Majesty's Government desired such stabilization. If one of Benito Mussolini's Undersecretaries of State called upon nations to create a World-wide Planned Economic Order, Il Duce's stand would be clear. Last week, however, White House correspondents could not get the President to say Yes-or-No when they asked if he approved proposals for monetary stabilization and world planning solemnly made in Europe by men whose duty was to keep silent if they...
...Berengaria that supercharged torpedo of Japanese diplomacy, Rear Admiral and Special Envoy Isoroku Yamamoto. It is no secret whatever in Tokyo that the Japanese Admiralty has spent most of the summer priming Admiral Yamamoto to blow up the London negotiations unless Japan gets every single thing she wants...
Before Ambassador von Hoesch replied. the Soviet envoy, Comrade Ivan Maisky, was heard from. He denounced "Miss Russia." "She is no true woman of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic!" cried excitable Ambassador Maisky. "This so-called 'Miss Russia' is not a Bolshevik woman in any sense but a White Russian...
Bill Bullitt was also born & bred a Philadelphia socialite of the bluest. But today he is famed as the only envoy in Moscow whom Bolsheviks consider practically one of themselves. His second wife was the widow of famed U.S. Communist John Reed who lies buried in the Kremlin wall. Two months ago he persuaded the Russian high command to tell off a squad of cavalrymen to learn polo from his secretary. He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches...