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...cynicism of the week much relished by the Montreux diplomats was a British proposal to be allowed to take through the Dardanelles 15,000 additional tons of war boats "for humanitarian purposes." Asked Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff: "What is the meaning of humanitarian...
Meantime, no Italian delegation was sent to the Montreux Conference on the question of permitting Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles (TIME, July 6). Last week at Montreux an astonishing scene occurred as Rumania's greatest statesman, Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, who did more than anyone else to help Britain line the Balkans up for Sanctions, suddenly blew up in rage at what he loudly called the British Government's "two-faced attitude...
...Titulescu has been telling the Rumanian Government of Premier Tatarescu that despite all appearances Rumania could rely upon Britain as being basically true to her incessant promises to support "Collective Security." Instead, last week at Montreux, the British delegation stickled for what they called their "belligerent rights" in the Dardanelles, although the French and Greeks sharply reminded British Lord Stanley that the Briand-Kellogg-Pact-Renouncing-War-As-an Instrument-of-National-Policy "terminated belligerent rights." In the middle of a heated row tall Dr. Titulescu stalked in, denounced the British for "blowing now hot now cold" and rushed...
...Montreux, only a few miles up the Lake of Geneva from the sparkling new League of Nations buildings, the Conference opened last week with extreme Swiss police precautions against assassination of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, onetime traveling salesman, and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras. onetime male midwife. From London came the 7th Earl Stanhope, product of Eton, Oxford and the Grenadier Guards. He was sent to capitulate to Turkey at Montreux because British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, has the job of capitulating to Italy down the lake in Geneva this week...
...this someone had the happy thought of inducing the Montreux Conference to adjourn until next month, after the League meetings, and the 7th Earl Stanhope sped from Montreux to Geneva to tell "Tony" Eden how things stood. Dictator Benito Mussolini long since refused to send an Italian delegate to Montreux "until after sanctions are lifted." Last week the Italian Press, pointing out that Italian commercial tonnage is the heaviest through the straits, declared that obviously no solution at Montreux not approved by Italy could stand. At this the Turkish Press of Dictator Kamâl Atatürk exclaimed what...