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...making steps in foreign relations, and the appearance of the more thoroughly digested accounts for which one must wait considerable time. With headlines succeeding one another in a rapid course of attractive, yet often superficial heights, a Hoover Moratorium, an Anschluss, the fall of the pound, a visit of Grandi or of Laval, soon are forgotten by a large number of those who constitute public opinion; others who still remember these events in 1931 may nevertheless find in 'World Affairs' clear expositions of what actually happened. The book is primarily an enlarged summary, and the writers make no attempt...
...British bases at Gibraltar and Singapore are not police outposts but war bases. Everyone seemed to be furious with the German delegate before he sat down. Yet he had merely proposed with an enormous wealth of German detail the sweeping and almost complete disarmament already proposed by Italian Signor Grandi who drew thunderous cheers and by Russian Comrade Litvinov who drew cheers (TIME...
Smart Mr. Gibson made "Nine Points and said he might make more. Smart Signer Grandi made "Seven Points." Like firecrackers on a Chinese New Year's Day good ideas exploded every second, producing the effect of a vast Bedlam of Brilliance among the 2.500 smart people. (Biggest delegation: 100 Japanese...
Conference Doings. Handsome, spade-bearded Dino Grandi drew loudest cheers. The Crown Prince of Japan's father-in-law drew loudest hisses...
...delegates Swanson and Woolley met their two colleagues at Geneva last week, a swarm of nearly 1,000 delegates and representatives of other nations were also converging on League headquarters. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi headed the Italian delegation. André Tardieu led the Frenchmen. Chairman of the whole Conference was sober "Uncle Arthur" Henderson of Britain. Hopeful and variously important personages crammed every hotel room in Geneva which had erected a special building for the Conference and presented it to the League...