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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonial aspects have now been negotiated outside the fevered atmosphere of Britain's General Election by Mr. Maurice Peterson, the quietly efficient British Foreign Office civil servant charged with Ethiopian affairs. Mr. Peterson and his French counterpart, Count Rene de Saint-Quentin, placed at the disposal of Sir Samuel, Premier Laval and Baron Aloisi last week the negotiated basis. Next logical step was to get "The Deal's" elements up into a respectable League atmosphere, and for this purpose the Great Powers turned to "Dear Little Belgium." Hot from Brussels to Geneva went Belgian Premier Professor Paul...
With a rumble of content, Sir John Cadman, alert Board Chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd.,* learned last week that Lloyd's was offering insurance odds of 10-to-1 favoring the Baldwin Government to win Britain's general election Nov. 14. Confident Conservatives were saying at campaign headquarters: "The Government are as much embarrassed by the attacks of Lloyd George and Snowden as a lion facing two gnats." Presently a secretary told Tycoon Cadman that Gnat Lloyd George had declared in what he meant for a stinging attack on His Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will...
...last spring, President Roosevelt's jacking up of the world price of silver (TIME, April 22) could only disorganize the price structure of China and drive her off the silver standard. The question was last week whether Mr. Roosevelt had driven China into the fiscal arms of Britain. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross of the British Exchequer has been in China for some weeks. He is rumored to have made available ?10,000,000 as a "monetary re-organization loan" to Nanking, with Chinese currency to be linked with the pound sterling. This last week could not be confirmed...
...have the honor to be, with much esteem and respect sir, Your Excellancy's most obediant and humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON...
Said Queen Mary, inspecting a bust of Home Secretary Sir John Simon: "I like...