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...Poland is wavering, Czechoslovakia stands firmer than ever in alliance with France. This year "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." Foreign Minister Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, is taking his turn as President of the League Council. To oblige M. Barthou last week M. Benes paid Russia the unprecedented compliment of popping into his limousine and riding as Council President 20 miles out to Comrade Litvinoff's village. He brought an invitation for Russia to join the League signed by 30 countries whose signatures M. Barthou had obtained. Comrade Litvinoff "telegraphed" Russia's acceptance on a blank which...
...Assembly which acts by two-thirds vote convened, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman.''strongly urged Russia's candidacy. In a pungent speech he hinted that to escape Depression large areas of the world may have to modify their Capitalist systems. Even so, Dr. Benes pessimistically declared, "Perhaps an entire generation is condemned to weakness and a long, painful struggle...
...popular in the U. S. She is noted for her superb technique which makes her dresses the favorites of connoisseurs. Commercial buyers are less enthusiastic. Her gowns depend on expensive materials, are difficult to copy. But she has a large following among well-bred socialites, dresses some of the smartest women in Paris...
General von Schleicher was for years the master intrigant and "Field Grey Eminence" of the German Reichswehr. The Hohenzollerns have always looked to him as their smartest stalking horse for a return of the Monarchy. Not long ago Paris heard rumors that Chancellor Hitler would be ousted by a military coup led by General von Schleicher...
Debt Wall, Bound up inside Germany are long and medium-term private debts owed to foreign creditors of some 8,000,000,000 marks ($3,140,000,000 at current exchange) and an annual interest bill of about $195,000,000. Last week one of Germany's smartest bargainers, Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, lowered the debt wall again at the end of a month-long haggle with representatives of Germany's U. S., British. French, Swedish, Dutch and Swiss creditors...