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Last week Acting Secretary of State Castle sent a brief note to the British Embassy in Washington accepting the League of Nations' invitation to an International Monetary & Economic Conference. This parley, an outgrowth of the Lausanne agreement, will probably be held in London during the autumn. The U. S. is to join an organization committee to prepare agenda...
...before Nov. 8. Rarely in step with the White House, Senator William Edgar Borah went to Minneapolis last week and there delivered before the summer convocation of the University of Minnesota a powerful address for the inclusion of Reparations, Debts and armaments as major economic factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement of world problems. Excerpts: "We can't restore confidence in the business world until the vast load of armaments are lifted from...
...trade problems, which the U. S. would attend. U. S. opinion decided almost immediately that this later Conference would be a united attempt on the part of Europe to force revision or cancellation of War Debts. On May 31 Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. would attend no parley which discussed reparations, debts, or specific tariff rates. Last week British Charge d'Affaires Francis d'Arcy Godolperin Osborne carried to Secretary Stimson official invitations from Ramsay MacDonald as president of the Lausanne Conference and from Sir John Simon as British Foreign Minister to take part...
...international oil meetings. Last week Russian scientists announced not one such new field but three, all strategically located in the Ural mountains, all prodigiously rich. Production from these fields, they said, would free all other Soviet oil for export. Because the revelation came hard upon an international oil parley which collapsed when Russia would not accept offered terms (TIME, June 13) oilmen accepted it with reservations...
...Japan was by no means at war with Russia yet. A Soviet consular official, traveling in a special five-car train with Red Army guards, rumbled into Harbin, perhaps for a parley with General Honjo...