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...Hull, who demanded three weeks ago prompt compensation for $10,000,000 worth of lands seized since 1927 from U. S. farmers and ranchers in Mexico. To Mr. Hull's assertion that "The taking of property without compensation is not expropriation, it is confiscation," Mexican Foreign Secretary Eduardo Hay replied that no principle of international law "makes obligatory the payment of immediate compensation, nor even deferred compensation, for expropriations of a general and impersonal character...
...Hay contrasted the desires of Mexicans with the claims of U. S. citizens : "On the one hand, are weighed the conquests of justice and the uplift of an entire people, and on the other hand the purely pecuniary interests of certain individuals." This, said Señor Hay with masterly blandness, justified Mexico's "apparent failure" to pay for what she took...
...show that Foreign Secretary Hay meant business, the Mexican Official Gazette announced on the day the note was delivered that 1,800 acres of pasture land in the State of Jalisco had just been confiscated from Dora and Oscar Newton, U. S. citizens. In point of plain fact, Mexico had told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives...
...watchmen passed through the air lock of the north tube, opened the door leading to the boring shield, were met by a blast of smoke. Inside a great, licking blaze, whetted by the high oxygen content of the compressed air, was feeding on timbers, sawdust and salt hay in the unfinished bore. Backing out through the lock, they found the telephone short-circuited, the elevator not running, had to climb ten flights of stairs up the ventilating shaft to sound an alarm...
...Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth wrote a comedy (Kiss the Boys Goodbye) on the subject, scheduled...