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There can be no more proper way in which to allow Harvard students to express their sincere sympathy for the cause than to put the meeting for once within the pale of respectability. The decision to let a well-organized parley in the soothing atmosphere of Sanders Theatre take the place of the unforgettable free-for-all on the Widener steps or other unhallowed ground should draw to the gathering the best elements of the anti-war movement...
Early last week U. S. headlines, which for months had been mumbling darkly about the prospect of a distant war, suddenly shrilled a new and alarming note: ETHIOPIA PARLEY COLLAPSES. ITALY BARS ALL PEACE TALK. BRITAIN TO ASK U. S. TO HELP CURB WAR. U. S. Charge d'Affaires Ray Atherton had been closeted with British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare in London. "Friendly but powerful pressure," wrote a New York Times Paris correspondent, "will come from Great Britain, working through diplomatic, political and press channels to win the U. S. to her side in the coming conflict over...
...Hello, Gene!" he beamed, greeting the one man who is a match for Huey Long in denouncing the New Deal and its leader - Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. Democratic President and Governor clasped hands and began to chat amiably. Guardian angel of the peace parley was Clark Howell, who arranged it all when the President week-ended at Jefferson Islands in company with party bigwigs (TIME, July 22). In the comfortable air of the President's office Governor Talmadge sat down to explain just how terrible it was that the Government was holding up $19,000,000 of Federal...
That all this should have leaked out of King Carol's closely guarded summer palace was attributed by Rumanians to the fact that businesslike Mme Lupescu will sell anything at a fair price. At the close of last week's parley. Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania announced with dignity and menace: "Mobilization of the Little Entente's armed forces will follow as a matter of course if the [Habsburg] dynasty is re-established in Vienna...
...blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24). Nettled, Sir Bolton admitted that abolition of submarines had been discussed during the negotiations but insisted that the British Government had obtained from the German Government everything Realmleader Hitler was willing to concede. Stenographic records of the parley were then searched last week and Sir Bolton, after cabling Berlin, obtained Der Führer's permission to tell the House that the German negotiators had expressed themselves verbally as follows: "Germany supports the British Government's desire for the complete abolition of submarines, and if it could be achieved would...