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Anniversary. Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Philip Snowden; their silver wedding; at London; March...
April 14?Presentation of the national budget to the British House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden; in London...
...ground" which he mentioned at the second Hague Conference (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). He charged then that the original Owen D. Young reparations plan, drawn up at Paris by world's greatest financiers (TiME, Feb. 18, 1929, et seq.), has now been so modified by politicians like Philip Snowden and Andre Tardieu that it is no longer the same thing. "Don't call it the 'Young Plan' any more!" snapped Dr. Schacht last week. "At the second Hague Conference the Young Plan was annihilated entirely...
...legalistic interpretation!" In fact, as everyone knows. Prime Minister Andre Tardieu is popular at Paris very largely because Frenchmen believe that he obtained the right of sanctions at The Hague. On the other hand, Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, who was matched against the shrewd Tardieu and the stubborn little Snowden, feels that he came off with the best deal possible under the circumstances, and is never tired of reminding his fellow Germans that France has agreed to take sanctions only in case the world court has first ruled that Germany is willfully defaulting on her reparations payments...
...rubber stampings at $10 each give the British Treasury an extra $1,000,000 every year. Rather than lose this, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, now in the agony of bringing forth a budget which will balance despite an increase in the "dole" paid to British can't-works and won't-works, insisted stubbornly that the "nuisance" be continued, even against the ultimate interests of the Empire...