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...joker: Statesman Mussolini is believed to have obtained a "free hand in Abyssinia" from Britain and France who need his aid in getting Germany into the Eastern Locarno. In London this week the Foreign Office announced, that Sir Sidney Barton, British Minister to Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia, had instructions to inform His Majesty that Abyssinia's proper course is "direct negotiation with Italy," not an appeal to the League (of which Abyssinia is a member) or an appeal to Britain...
...just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
Uncertain grins appeared below the beaks of the newshawks. There was dead silence. Used to Presidential leg-pulling, they waited for the joker. Then gradually it. dawned on them that the only joke was the President's deliberate error with the middle initials of Messrs. Baruch and Johnson, that he was stealing the show from the Senate munitions investigation. The correspondents began to babble questions and Franklin Roosevelt beamed at the success of his pleasantry...
...Republican Press burgeoned with sarcastic editorials charging him with deliberately deceiving the nation. Wrote Political Pundit Frank R. Kent in the Baltimore Sun: "In a normal administration no department head would have dared present such a report. He would have known it would be analyzed at once, the joker discovered and the pretense punctured. . . . The truth is Mr. Farley spent $52,000,000 more last year than he took in and his 'surplus' is obtained only by not charging as expenses some $64,000,000. . . . Having performed this unprecedented trick with the figures, Mr. Farley piously says in his report...
...week James Ramsay MacDonald can step out of No. 10 Downing St., stroll across the greensward to Buckingham Palace and "advise" King George to dissolve the House of Commons. In France power to block such dissolution is held by the Senate. In practice this joker has produced a tribe of Deputies 'and Senators in open conspiracy to keep their lucrative seats as long as possible...