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...this pleased Foreign Minister Momtchilo Nintchitch. He had returned from Paris, where he had spoken with French and British statesmen, full of fire for the spirit of the crusade against Bolshevism. He expects shortly to come to an arrangement in Belgrade with Premier Zankov of Bulgaria* concerning the Bolsheviki...
...which either required or suggested that Britain should refer the matter to that body. He had been prepared at Rome, he said, to answer any question that a member of the Council might put to him; but no questions were asked. On the contrary, in private conversation, many foreign statesmen had congratulated him upon the British action in Egypt. "To hear a really anti-British declaration," he challenged, ". . have to come to the British House of Commons...
Behind the gray walls of the Quai d'Orsay the two statesmen conducted an unusual conference. There were no witnesses, and none was needed; not even an interpreter, for Mr. Chamberlain speaks French almost as well as M. Herriot. But the walls of the Quai d'Orsay are not so thick that they do not have chinks, the windows are not so dirty that they are opaque and the doors are not so made that they have no keyholes...
...myself have always followed the interests of our Government in all financial transactions. I warned the authorities against signing the Versailles Treaty. At the Peace Conference, I served only as an expert, declining to be a member of the delegation. Naturally, the Jews have acted as advisers to statesmen, as, for instance, Bleichröder did for Bismarck...
Birth rate figures for the last nine months show French parents persisting in their now chronic refusal to maintain the race. This is a source of great worry to Gallic statesmen, but no such drastic measures have been proposed there as have recently appeared in Omaha. In the Nebraska capital city a bill is under discussion providing for the annulment of all marriages which have been deliberately unproductive after two years of opportunity. Report has it, however, that the threat to irresponsible but happy married life is not a serious one, for a storm of protest has risen to block...