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Such was the totally misleading theme-sentence of a suave, lengthy reply returned, last week, by British Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain to the proposal made by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg (TIME, April 23 et seq.) for a treaty "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" among the U. S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan...
Tucked away in the 12 additional sections of the British reply are a series of interpretive qualifications which would deprive of all meaning the phrase "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." For example, Sir Austen Chamberlain declares: "I should remind your Excellency that there are certain regions of the world the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety...
Good humor, rather than barbed and sharpened wit is, indeed, typical of the whole of this present issue. There is plenty of pleasant nonsense, sustained from the verses on the first page through the burlesque accounts of the extraordinary exploits of Colonel (and Captain) Sir Harry Hard Sauce. But unfortunately this nonsense is frequently diffuse and inconsequent--the story of the Golden Girl's transoceanic flight would profit, for example, if there were in it less wandering of the fancy and more satiric thrusts. It is, moreover, a pity that L. C. Jones' bold and effective drawings cannot be provided...
Having bought this brilliant and tender painting, Sir Joseph assured its English owners and authorities of the government that he would leave his possession in England for a fairly long period at least before taking it to the U. S. Lady Desborough, who had inherited the canvas indirectly from the third Earl Cowper who in turn had bought it from the Niccolini Palace in Florence 150 years ago, had dealt with Sir Joseph before. In 1913 she sold him the "small Cowper Madonna," also a Raphael, which now hangs in the Widener collection at Philadelphia...
...Exceeding by $75,000 the previous record price for a single painting, paid by Sir Joseph Duveen for Gainsborough's Blue Boy (now in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif...