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...dead of night, speaker E. P. Hill of the House of Representatives and H. Thomas Knight, another anti-Johnston agitator, summoned their colleagues to secret conclave in the Huckins Hotel. In pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around,† the sleepy statesmen preferred charges against Governor Johnston, including incompetency, conspiracy to defraud, improper appointments, illegal use of state funds. They also framed charges to impeach Chief Justice Frederick P. Branson of the State Supreme Court, author of the decision declaring them a nonlegal gathering...
Officially the 47th session of the Council of the League of Nations was going forward at the League Secretariat; but smart correspondents watched closest the pageant of statesmen at Br'er Briand's inn. Countries...
After luncheon? at which the Dictator appeared as a Polish general with sword and spurs? both statesmen settled quietly to the business which had brought Marshal Pilsudski to Geneva; the Polish-Lithuanian frontier crisis (TIME, Dec. 12). Already M. Briand was in confidential possession of all the facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland...
Official Steps. Although the unofficial acts of M. Briand and other League statesmen, last week, were of preponderant importance, the Council took certain official steps. It: 1) Authorized a $30,000,000 loan for Greece, to be raised in Great Britain and the U.S. under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs...
...Statesmen thought that the strong-minded and purposeful Ministress would ignore this final kickback from her Mexican adventure. She remains in good standing with the Soviet government, which returned her last month to her original and favorite diplomatic post: the Soviet legation in Oslo, Norwegian capital. There King Haakon did not hesitate to receive her as persona, grata...