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...France had been weakened by what Frenchmen call "The Snowden Incident," Scot MacDonald answered quick and short: "That is utterly absurd!" On reaching Geneva, he let it be known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...
Though no inkling was given at Geneva of what the prime minister would say, White House correspondents understood last week that substantial Anglo-U. S. agreements, had been reached on the following points...
Through a lighted window shaggy old Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking...
Flushed with praise and the knowledge that he had just been appointed Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Ramsay MacDonald at Geneva (see The League), forthright Chancellor Snowden voiced his pride frankly to correspondents: "We succeeded in all the essential points of our claims. . . . The influence of Great Britain in international affairs has been reestablished. . . . The arrangement for withdrawal of foreign troops from the Rhine is the greatest political achievement since Locarno...
Returning from a weighty conference at the summer palace of Little Tsar Boris, frugal Prime Minister Andrei Liaptcheff last week bounced in the back seat of his ancient, rattling limousine while his chauffeur wheeled the car down the rutty road to Sofia. Near Varna, not far from the palace, the Liaptcheff limousine swerved round a curve, slewed against the glossy high-wheeled cart of a rich Bulgarian peasant...