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...Cabinet of Empire." Premier King of Canada set sail last week for England. Premiers Hertzog of South Africa and Bruce of Australia were already in London. During the week Indian maharajas arrived by almost every packet. This august conflux had for its focus the modest official residence of Premier Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street. Within a few days Stanley Baldwin would welcome there for a round table conference what British newsorgans dub the "Cabinet of Empire." Technically this gathering of the Commonwealth's farthest flung administrators is known as the Imperial Conference, has not met since...
...time the bust had been accepted Dr. Stresemann's cigar had burned to a well-mouthed stump and he discovered that he possessed no other cigars. Foreign Minister Briand of France, resourceful, smilingly proffered a packet of French cigarets from which Dr. Stresemann selected one without enthusiasm. Upon this tableau of Franco-German concord Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain (as lean as M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann are fat) cast a thin but approving smile...
...sleek French packet Amiral Pierre steamed southward through the Mediterannean last week her first cabin passengers regarded with awe a squat, hawk-beaked Moroccan with a short bristling black beard who appeared now and then on deck always accompanied by two armed French guards. Spain and France had poured out hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master...
Refreshed by this escapade, Alfonso boarded a cross-channel packet, set sail for England accompanied by his consort and their eldest son and daughter, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, 19, and the Infanta Beatriz...
Unhampered by the presence of tedious experts, equipped with a sizable packet of Left-Centrist votes, and relying, for at least toleration, upon the faction of his youth, the Right, M. Caillaux, super-demagogue, was in a position last week to begin once more in earnest the dance of intrigue, which to him is life...