Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Trade is to be free within the Empire, but around the Empire is to rise a tariff wall. Deliberately contradictory, this '"straight-for ward" scheme has been denounced in Parliament by all three parties (TIME, Feb. 10), a fact of which the manifesto proceeded to take scathing note: "Snowden has poured out his scorn: Lloyd George has been moved to put on his full warpaint and to cut his most com ical capers, and Baldwin looks the other way while some of his lieutenants threaten all who dare to believe in the economic union of the empire...
...World War was twice mentioned in despatches), the Earl of Clarendon is "in trade." As Chairman of the government-owned British Broadcasting Co.* he has a salary of $14,580 a year, four times that of sharp-tongued Mrs. Philip Snowden, one of the B. B. C.'s three governors. Among his Lordship's not inconsiderable possessions are 500 acres of good Hertfordshire and Warwickshire land, an extensive collection of Old Masters (Van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely) and the romantic ruins of Kenilworth Castle, which any U. S. tourist is at liberty to visit on payment...