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Last week England's noted elder economist Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon, who was her Ambassador to Germany directly after the War, spoke up, as more active financiers cannot very well do. Said he: "This depression is the stupidest and most gratuitous in history!" All the existing essential circumstances "except monetary wisdom," he declared, favor a return to prosperity and well being. Gold is the thing about which 1930 was stupid, about which 1931 must be wise. "The explanation of our anomalous situation," declared Lord d'Abernon, "is that the machinery for handling...
...fact that alcohol is less a stimulant than a releaser of the inhibitions was bemoaned last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing by that grand old Victorian snorter, Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon...
...game started slowly, but before long the half had turned into a fast and furious fray. Wenner started the scoring but it was evened by Stoke's and Driscoll's fouls. With Wenner dropping long shots the score was tied at 10 all, but soon after Driscoll began his antics and the end of the half saw the purple leading by 22 to 15. Holy Cross continued to function during the first part of the second half, while Harvard seemed to sleep. A 20 point lead was reached. Near the end Baskerville and Wenner made a few spurts...
Trade. The opening of large South American markets to British goods was predicted by Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon, oldtime diplomat, just back from a trade mission (TIME, Sept. 23) to that continent...
...slender, patrician Englishman who rose to reply is Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission...