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...breeding trade practices and methods." The steering committee, cold to this proposal, began to discuss adjourning the Conference on July 26 "for at least two months" but were halted by a fresh emotional plea from Mr. Hull. "I do not see," cried he to correspondents, "how the Conference statesmen can go home to their starving people and admit they have failed to achieve anything...
...Polish. Several years ago, when Russia and Poland were publicly at daggers points, he began making overtures to a Pole who had been born on soil now part of the Soviet Union, famed August Zaleski. "The Briand of the North," then Foreign Minister of Poland. Almost furtively the two statesmen laid the basis of a diplomatic rapprochement, perhaps not desired at that time by either Dictator Stalin or Dictator Pilsudski. Last year M. Zaleski was replaced by Foreign Minister Beck, a "Pilsudski Colonel," reputed a swashbuckler. Momentarily the Polish-Russian rapprochement seemed to go glimmering. But Adolf Hitler, with...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...
...Paraguayan soldiers, backed against their Verdun, a hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep and dark as if for silver, copper...
...admitted the existence of a nation of 160,000,000 inhabitants when last May Franklin Roosevelt included U. S. S. R. in his world-circling appeal for peace. For the first time in 16 years a Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs did business as an equal with U. S. statesmen when last month Maxim Maximovich Litvinov met Assistant Secretary of State Moley at the London Economic Conference. For the first time in 16 years U. S. trade with Russia was officially promoted when last fortnight Reconstruction Finance Corp. made some $4,000,000 available for exporting cotton...