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...worthwhile to call to attention at this time the visit of the Philadelphia Orchesra under the well-publicized Leopold Stokowski to Boston on April 14. The advance sale is so heavy that those who desire tickets had best write in to Aaron Richmond's office in Boston without delay...
...scare the wits out of Communists and Socialists every few days by discovering that the Capitalists have a new peace up their sleeves. Last week Genevieve was afraid the Capitalists were about to persuade Emperor Haile Selassie to become the arch-peacemaker with the assistance of King Leopold of Belgium. The Belgian Government was to propose at Geneva that the League draft a new plan similar to but less obvious than the Hoare-Laval Deal, while public opinion is distracted by sending a League mission to Ethiopia at Italy's request "for the announced purpose of investigating methods...
...only King Leopold but also Professor Paul van Zeeland, the "New Deal'' devaluationist Premier of Belgium, today frankly regard everything else as secondary to the menace of a Germany which is putting over one secret deal after another with Britain, the first to tear up the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24), the second to tear up the air armament clauses (TIME, Jan. 6), and perhaps others suspected in Belgium but as yet undisclosed. Since King Leopold's sister is the Crown Princess of Italy, family ties make His Majesty a pleader...
Last week in Brussels the Court issued a peculiar denial which did not touch upon King Leopold but denied that "Belgium" had been "commissioned" by the Great Powers to seek a peaceful Italo-Ethiopian settlement-i. e. the denial covered something which had never been asserted...
When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...