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...pact may lead to diplomatic recognition and because Russia is having a hard time just now to grow a wheat surplus anyway. Uncle Henry found Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov willing to cooperate in restricting exports. But down in the Argentine there was the Devil to pay. A stubborn Argentine Senate, egged by small wheat growers, railed against restriction...
...This American, this M. Cox-what do you call him?" European delegates wanted to know. Settling the question Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, President of the Conference, dubbed Mr. Cox, "The Governor."* Promptly he became "Le Gouverneur" to polite but stubborn Frenchmen who made up their minds that M. Cox was not going to chair man the Conference Monetary Committee, first and most important to be formed as 66 nations got down to business last week. France, as the sole Great Power still on the gold standard, felt that her Finance Minister, knife-featured little Georges Bonnet, was the logical...
Touching squarely on the topic which President Roosevelt insists must be kept out of the Conference. Mr. MacDonald rasped with a stubborn Scotch burr: "The question of War debts . . . must be dealt with before every obstacle to general recovery has been removed and it must be taken up without delay...
...Senators, poking and prodding with questions to make the day's headlines. But now not one of them knew which way the evidence would turn next. Gathered decorously in the background was the little knot of witnesses waiting their turn on the stand. But now there was no stubborn defiance of the Senate, no refusal to testify...
...genius of the piano, whose windows were so dirty "the sun never pierced their thick grey crust," and Paul Vallery, the poet, Andre Gide with his reserved, cruelly analytical "Nouvelle Revue Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable rooms looking out on the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, Matisse, Madame Chanel, Modigliani, and James Joyce, and Jose Maria Sert, who is now decoration part of Radio City. There are almost...