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...front cover*) Statesmen of every color, babbling every language and brimming with every economic creed, surged this week into the Hall of Fossils of London's new Geological Museum, sat down like schoolboys behind green metal desks for the World Monetary & Economic Conference, most crucial gathering since Versailles...
...same day last week Premier Edouard Daladier received at 10:30 a. m. President Roosevelt's special "Disarmament Ambassador." ever-optimistic Norman H. Davis, and Britain's Air Minister, florid Lord Londonderry. After chatting through lunch and all afternoon, the statesmen shook hands in friendly disagreement...
...Europe, but he left the impression that nothing would please him better. Sirens shrieked. Il Duce dashed from the Senate, followed by the three ambassadors in their cars, to his vast, lofty, stone-floored office in the Palazzo Venezia. There, while a Roman crowd roared applause outside, the four statesmen squiggled their initials. The pact of collaboration is to run for ten years and if (See col. 2) not denounced before the end of the eighth year will continue indefinitely in force, terminating only upon two years notice that one of the signatories wishes to withdraw. Ten minutes after...
...Nations organizing committee invited 67 nations but Panama was too poor to accept. Among the official delegates is one Chief of State: President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland. There are eight Prime Ministers, 20 Foreign Ministers, 80 assorted Finance and other Cabinet Ministers and heads of central banks. Potent foreign statesmen in London are by no means limited to the official delegates. At least one extra King will be there, lean, white-chinned Feisal of Irak, come to watch proceedings, coach his delegates from the sidelines, and renew his acquaintance with two of Britain's most photographed beauties: Lady Louis...
...important delegate whom the U. S. did not see was roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. A veteran of most world conferences since 1921, he has an annoying habit of puncturing the complacency of European statesmen by attacking the empty phrases they use to veil their lack of accomplishment, knowing well that every sally at the expense of the bourgeois world brings him salvos of applause from Moscow. Not one peep came from M. Litvinov last week. Observers believed he would work hard and say little for many days to come. Theoretically a world economic conference should mean nothing...