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...Rome to any change in the League, patient, sandy-mustached Sir Eric Drummond, now British Ambassador but for 14 years Secretary General of the League. Talks between II Duce and Sir John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered to Chancellor Hitler a stiff note, reputedly rejecting Germany's demand that she be permitted to triple her present army of 100,000 men. With France and Germany thus deadlocked, Sir John...
...Beale, high-scorer in the game with the Terriers, will start at right wing, with Windy Hasler and Al Dewey completing the forward wall. Fran Lane will not be able to make the trip, since his old football injury is acting up again. His place at the point position will be taken by Frank Gleason, who will pair up with Bill Watts, thus forming a combination which, although it has not been very effective to date, has nevertheless been steadily improving. Captain deGive will fill his usual place as guardian of the draperies...
...clays later the French Ambassador to Germany, Andre François-Poncet, called on Chancellor Hitler in case he wished to answer the question of France. Their talk was secret. Germans hailed what they called a victory for Herr Hitler, in that he had drawn France into direct conversations on the issue of Security, whereas she has always before insisted that it should be raised only in the open forum of the League...
...once by Franco-German negotiation instead of by the scheduled Saar plebiscite in 1935: 3) offered, if permitted to increase Germany's armaments substantially above the limits set by the Treaty of Versailles, to pledge the German Government not to exceed the new limits. According to Ambassador François-Poncet's entourage, Chancellor Hitler exclaimed during their conversation: "Two things must at all costs be removed. One is the French sense of uneasiness. The other is the German sense of imposed inferiority. I am now directing my whole policy toward removing these two obstacles to peace...
...Handy-Man" Fran Lane will be the "cynosure of neighboring eyes" again today for he is in a new position--not new to him but a change from running to blocking back. He has before worked well in that post; in fact, it was his original berth on the Varsity...