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...powers. Particularly last week it was advisable for Mr. MacDonald to show himself the broad, humanitarian champion of peace that he has always been. The Latin powers were in a huff, galled by their defeat at The Hague by Britain's stubborn, ungracious Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (see col. 2). The French especially were furious. Therefore, on his way to Geneva, last week, astute Scot MacDonald stopped off at Paris with his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel, to pay a tactful, friendly little call on French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, just back from three weeks of desperate haggling...
Asked point blank if the "entente cordiale" between Britain and France had been weakened by what Frenchmen call "The Snowden Incident," Scot MacDonald answered quick and short: "That is utterly absurd!" On reaching Geneva, he let it be known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...
...much credit should not be given to Her Majesty, but fact was that not many hours after the royal banquet Mr. Snowden, for the first time since the Conference opened, lunched informally with his chief foe, French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, and with Dr. Stresemann. As every U. S. businessman knows, the bigger the deal, the more vital is lunch...
...Philip Snowden. Stubbornly battling for 100% fulfillment of his demands, pallid, drawn-faced, crippled Chancellor Snowden rejected, day after day. a long series of Franco-Belgian-Italian verbal offers, all claimed by the Latins to give Britain upwards of 80% satisfaction, all denounced by Mr. Snowden as giving less than 20%?a discrepancy accounted for by the fact that each side insisted on computing at different rates of interest the value of the sums involved over 59 years. "I have had the patience of a Job!" exclaimed the Chancellor to British correspondents. "I told this conference on the first...
Finally, after Queen Wilhelmina's banquet, Mr. Snowden asked that the latest verbal offer of the Latins be put in writing. All that afternoon, all night, all the next day, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and his Latin colleagues toiled to document their offer, snatching only occasional catnaps, trying desperately to get the job done in time to have a few days' leeway for final dickering before M. Briand would be obliged to leave for the September session "of the League of Nations at Geneva...