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...Seven of the Geneva Conference? finished making their initial proposals last week. Having done so, statesmen of the Big Seven showed extreme disinclination to hear the proposals of 50 in ore nations. Thus some of them did not hear what the people of the United States of Brazil, which is in desperate financial straits, have paid handsomely to have said for them in Geneva...
Therefore last week the men in Geneva, the statesmen of 57 nations, had to build almost anew, or fail and leave their Conference a mockery. Up stood a go-getter, before the Conference was quite ready to hear him, and dynamically proposed to build anew. Said he in effect: the Conference had better scrap that confused wad of paper over which European statesmen have fought and contradicted each other for years, the so-called League of Nations Draft Convention for the Disarmament Conference. Instead, the go-getter, M. Andre Tardieu, proposed his plan, the plan of France...
...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...
...main dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Western Union Telegraph Co. installed complete cable and telegraph stations and three translux machines to flash messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would...
More anxiously than for months past, financiers and statesmen scanned the state of Europe last week. On the U. S. horizon optimists had discovered pale streaks of hope (see p. 11). Would Europe stand? There was plenty for them to think about. On the credit side, the week passed without any major political disaster. Stock markets in Paris, London and Berlin all continued to rise. With millions in gold coming from India, the pound sterling rose 11? during the week to close at $3.51, highest since November...