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Maisky. While these fireworks sizzled in Moscow, diplomatic spade work went on in London. Soviet Ambassador Yvan Maisky quietly called on Sir John Simon and on Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade. The result of these conversations was reported to Moscow and to Ramsay MacDonald: When the trial ends, a verdict of Guilty will almost certainly be pronounced, a verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia...
...Reparations meeting at Lausanne. President Hoover, accepting the League's invitation to attend, had despatched to Geneva Edmund Ezra Day of the Rockefeller Foundation and John Henry Williams, Harvard professor of economics, as U. S. delegates to help draft agenda. London was picked as the meeting place and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's Prime Minister, consented to serve as chairman. Still unsettled was the opening date...
Produced by Benito Mussolini, accepted in principle by Ramsay MacDonald, the new Four-Power Peace Plan was presented before publication to the French Government (TIME, March 27). In Paris for three weeks it has been discussed in wordy secret conferences and lengthy telegrams. To the French and British Governments was left the privilege of publishing a translation of the text. This was released last week and the world knew in detail what Mussolini & MacDonald have proposed...
Back from Italy, back from France came James Ramsay MacDonald last week to report to his King & country on the results of his peace pilgrimage. But Britons paid more attention to what was going on in the echoing, draughty drill hall of the Duke of York's Military School in Chelsea...
...team of Wedgwood & Churchill was also effective last week in scoring Ramsay MacDonald's tour of Europe in behalf of peace and the Mussolini Four-Power Pact (TIME. March 27). Said Winston Churchill: "We have got our modern Don Quixote home again, with Sancho Panza at his tail, bearing with them these somewhat dubious trophies which they have collected amidst the nervous tittering of Europe...