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...French delegate. Hulking, outspoken Foreign Minister Flandin had to stay in France to do a little belated campaigning for the coming parliamentary elections. To take his place, he sent a predecessor in France's Foreign Office, silver-thatched, quick-witted Joseph Paul-Boncour. One of the smartest trial lawyers in France, he is much more sympathetic personally to Anthony Eden than Foreign Minister Flandin is. Puffing nervously at a cigaret, talking with pale fluttery fingers, M. Paul-Boncour explained France's position in an entirely new light...
...Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Short time ago Lawyer Strawn learned that the Black Committee had subpoenaed from Western Union copies of all telegrams sent or received by his firm between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew W. Mellon (TIME, March 11, 1935). Last week Lawyer Hogan marched into District of Columbia Supreme Court, charged that the Black Committee had instituted an unconstitutional "inquisitorial investigation and fishing expedition" into...
...PEACE. The significance of the fact that they were attacked is to be found in the exact opposites of all they stood for. The significance is WAR. Neither attacked nor threatened was any "strong" or so-called "Fascist" Japanese. Their names began to appear only when Tokyo's smartest correspondents started guessing who was going to be the next Premier...
Finally the League Council dropped the whole matter with a resolution piously hoping that Uruguay and Russia will resume their relations. Smartest Litvinoff crack...
...Convention sets up one of the world's sternest, smartest and most thoroughgoing sets of game laws. It forbids hunting any game with bush fires, poison, dazzling lights, nets, pits, snares, set guns, bothering it with automobiles or airplanes, practically embargoes elephant and rhinoceros horn. Furthermore it patches all Africa with game reserves in which hunting will be wholly or partially prohibited. Besides the 21 beasts, birds and plants absolutely protected everywhere, the Convention listed another 22 that may be hunted only with special licenses that will be nearly impossible to get from local governments. These licenses will limit...