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...peripatetic group, just as the disciples of Jesus. It goes wherever God guides it." He smiled amiably, as did his entourage, 17 of whom had prepared typewritten statements for the reporters, describing themselves and the manner of their conversions to The Groups. Typical was the account of Jonkheer Eric van Lennep, Knight of St. John of Holland, who said of himself: "He used to live behind masks; a mask for the office; a mask for his friends, a mask at home and another for his social activities; but he has found freedom from all that, and more...
Java of course is the chief Dutch possession, and Batavia is the capital of Vice-regal Governor General Jonkheer A. C. De Graeff (he recently visited the U. S. unnoticed). But on the Pittsburgh's route Sumatra came before Java and the Davises first landed on Dutch soil at the port for Medan...
...name of the group which met last week in Geneva for the seventh time is The League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Once upon a time what they sought was "disarmament," but last week Dutch Chairman Jonkheer Dr. J. Loudon opened the session with these words: "We must ask the public to break its habit of referring to disarmament in connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation...
...high well-born Gentleman Jonkheer N; Maes van Herwerden,'' handsome but conventional young blood of the staid and doughty aristocracy of Holland, had sufficient social elasticity to become engaged to an actress, but not enough to carry the engagement through the first jealous suspicion of misconduct. Jenny Heysten knew that she loved him more than the two lovers who followed, but she found solace in her genius, which flourished or failed as her emotional life varied. When Jonkheer Nico returned, however, and saw her in an ingenue part, her seeming innocence recaptured him. Once more he tried to bridge...
Representatives of every nation of any consequence, including the U. S. and Soviet Russia, met in Geneva last fortnight to take up the work of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission where it was left last year (TIME, April 2, 1928). Chairman was a Dutchman, gruff, able, patient Jonkheer J. Loudon. Presently the delegates were asked to express individually their approval or disapproval of the following general principles: 1) Appreciable reduction by all nations of their existing armaments; 2) Acceptance by each nation in proportion to its size of a proportional degree of disarmament; 3) Adoption of a mathematical...