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...Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because it relies so little on Distortion. He has a passion for detail. Drawing in a mixture of pencil, pastel and oil paint he builds an effective, hilarious whole by concentrating on a few minutiae: the wrinkles in Secretary Stimson's coats, the gaunt wrists of a Park Avenue doorman, the wild hair and felt slippers of a French bistro waiter...
Peace & Pigs! The surprise of the "Surprise Conference" proved to be that there was no Stimson-MacDonald-Tardieu-Bruning-Grandi conference last week, the whole thing turning into a somewhat comic false alarm. Premier Tardieu's sudden dash turned out to be the result of a misunderstanding which led the Frenchman to think that Britain and the U. S. were going to maneuver the Conference into excluding from discussion the Tardieu Plan (TIME. Feb. 15) of creating a world police force to be managed by the League of Nations. Upon actually reaching Geneva, M. Tardieu found Messrs. Stimson...
...Stimson, who had a mild case of laryngitis before he left Washington, presently found it so bad in Geneva that he had to sit at home in his ornate, rented Louis XVI villa ("The Stimson Musée") wearing heavy woolen socks, a bathrobe and silken muffler. Meanwhile, Scot MacDonald's doctors were pestering him with doctorish demands that he "take three full hours of complete relaxation and visual rest every day." In this atmosphere of inaction, invalidism and frustration correspondents set down...
...positive denial of Statesman Stimson that he had permitted anyone to engage him in conversation about Reparations & War Debts (only Dr. Bruning, reputedly, tried to bring them up). ¶The sudden violence against Statesman Stimson of virtually the whole French Press, a violence which at once subsided after Premier Tardieu got over his scare. In the Paris Avenir, for example, French Senator Billiet had accused Statesman Stimson of "trying to cash in on the situation" by using what is owed the U. S. as a bargaining weapon to induce Europe to disarm. "By these gentlemen" [from Washington], stormed Senator Billiet...
...Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined in his rented Swiss villa near Geneva with laryngitis...