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...most trenchant Conservative speaker, did not sneak out after Leader Baldwin, but he stayed only to grin in silence while E. F. T. was ripped to tatters by a Welsh terrier and a Yorkshire bulldog, respectively the Right Honorable David Lloyd George (Liberal) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (Labor). From the peers gallery scowled Baron Beaverbrook. Viscount Rothermere was on the Atlantic, en route home from...
Thumbing one's teeth is, of course, much more polite than thumbing one's nose. At the second Hague Reparations Conference, last week, Chancellor Philip Snowden of the British Exchequer thumbed only his teeth at his adversaries from across the Rhine, even-tempered German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and meek Finance Minister Paul Moldenhaur...
...Chancellor thumbed not once but several times. When either of the Germans made a demand to which the Allies were not prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...
Morgan, Dillon & Kreuger. Not less but if possible more pugnacious than Chancellor Snowden was Prime Minister of France Andre Tardieu (see front cover and p. 23). He hammered at the Germans day after day, trying to browbeat them from the three main positions taken by Dr. Curtius: 1) That Germany is entitled under the Young Plan to declare a moratorium at any time, should she deem herself unable to go on paying reparations; 2) That she shall not be liable to "sanctions" (military punishment) by the Allies for suspending payments in good faith because she cannot pay; 3) That...
Shoulder to shoulder with M. Tardieu stood Mr. Snowden. and thumb-snapped at the Germans...