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Efficient League of Nations secretaries handed out the last armfuls of memoranda (making eight tons in all) at the World Monetary & Economic Conference in London last week. The statesmen of 66 nations, though they had accomplished nothing, seemed as cheerful as urchins about to be let out of school. With thermometers at 91° during the final Conference session, many delegates preferred to sip long drinks at the bar downstairs, leaving their places empty. Those who sat and sweltered whispered jokes among themselves as leading Conference delegates read its swan songs. Depending on the swan, the song was either acrid...
...Memoranda and Documents" contains a story of Hawthorne's which has not been reprinted before...
TIME'S sources for its Cash-Shannon account: pamphlets, letters and memoranda by kin of the principals; old newspaper clippings, local investigation...
...well did Secretary Lippmann do his job?his abstract ideas filtered through to President Wilson's speeches?that he was sent overseas as a captain of military intelligence. There he met and worked with Editor Frank Irving Cobb? of the World. At the Peace Conference, Lippmann's memoranda became in the U. S. delegation the authoritative commentary on Wilson's 14 Points...
...Secret Documents." President Hoover's message on the Treaty had hardly been read before Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, Democrat, was on his feet with a resolution requesting the President to submit to the Senate "all letters, cablegrams, minutes, memoranda, instructions, despatches, records, files and other information" relative to the Treaty. This question of "Secret Documents" had already been thrashed out between the anti-Treaty members of the Foreign Relations Committee and the President, who had explained the papers desired and withheld were not solely U. S. property but belonged also to the other countries negotiating (TIME, June...