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...prod the insult doubly deep, Mr. Snowden, when he had done, hobbled out past the French delegation with lips pursed, whistling, set off for a motor ride...
...Foul!" Flustered and anxious to avoid a scene, the conference interpreter did not translate into French the insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote...
Round Four. By now, of course, negotiations had reached total deadlock. The Latin delegations?maneuvered by M. Briand who himself spoke seldom?had dodged the Snowden attack by treating it as bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making...
...might have stepped out of the frame Of the portrait of the most handsome courtier who ever graced the court of a queen." Thus has Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden described the Empire's most important bachelor, potent patrician Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...have viewed the cotton crisis with utmost concern, he doubtless asked and received details of Mr. MacDonald's morning's work of mediation. The real subject of the Norman-MacDonald-Lamont conference, however, was the reparations situation at The Hague where fiery Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden seemed intent on bending or breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their...