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Free from duty he will travel in Italy with Lady Isabella Howard, spend his leisure time learning to bind books as a hobby. His greatest contribution to the U. S. was the personal demonstration of attitude which few U. S. statesmen could express and which he best expressed in a speech last year at Princeton : "There is nothing, apart from the ever-important cultivation of the spiritual values, which your country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian...
...five weeks diplomats and statesmen have been making amiable sounds at the London Naval Conference. Last week, compliments over, the Admirals were heard.* Not one spoke directly. At a conference whose avowed purpose is world peace and the reduction of naval armaments, Admirals have had to take back seats, but the Admirals spoke to the Statesmen, and the Statesmen, Admiralty-primed, brought forward the technical demands, the technical objections of their various navies. The real battles of the conference began...
...world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge in a billion dollars worth of naval ship building. Admirals and statesmen conferred, President Hoover hurried north from Florida (see p. 13). At the last minute Prime Minister Tardieu dropped a hint. If Britain) and the U. S. would sign a security pact, guaranteeing not to supply food or munitions to any aggressor nation in a war with France, the French Government would...
...Chief among U. S. Admirals at the conference were Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones (retired), Admiral William Veazie Pratt. Cultured, intelligent, Admiral Pratt ferried President Wilson to France in 1918. He was an expert adviser at the Washington Conference of 1921-22. Statesmen like him for his willingness to accept less from treaty makers than his more cautious brothers in arms...
...Greatest of living Icelandic statesmen is Jonas Jonsson, "The Mussolini of the North," who is Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics and of course a "literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine...