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...Manhattan after a European trip was talkative James Watson Gerard, 66, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, who three years ago issued a famed list of 64 "real rulers of the U. S." He told newshawks: "That list is no longer significant. Things have changed. In that list I included no statesmen, not even former President Hoover, because the men I did include were too busy to hold public office, yet their influence determined who should hold such office. I could revise the list so that it included 59 leading industrialists, bankers, journalists, and so forth, today, but I could not call...
After a few words of greeting, Dictator Mussolini grabbed the edge of the skiff which teetered dangerously as he pulled himself aboard, sat down sopping at the tiller while Chancellor Dollfuss rowed the skiff out of earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance...
...Statesmen of small countries have to do undignified things. Last week small Austria's minuscule Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (he is less than five feet tall) flew to the Adriatic beach resort of Riccione for a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini, found him swimming offshore and disinclined to come in. For Chancellor Dollfuss to have waited abjectly on the beach would have been too undignified. He hired a small skiff, rowed out to where Il Duce was floating on his back...
After a further conference at Riccione's Grand Hotel the two statesmen issued a communiqué from which it was clear that Chancellor Dollfuss agreed to Il Duce's plans for an Italo-Austrian-Hungarian bloc in return for Italian support of his regime. "Austrian independence" was laid down as a "basic principle" by Chancellor Dollfuss, according to the communiqué and both statesmen "perceived that there exists between them a common identity of ideas regarding the problems examined...
Other Chinese war lords and the Government fear him. Cultured Chinese statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...