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...price of silver, China has had deflation. In vain the Chinese Government imposed a silver export duty. Silver was smuggled out. When silver prices last week sailed toward Heaven, China grew desperate. Finance Minister Kung appealed to all patriotic Chinese to keep their silver at home. Chinese Ambassador Sze wrung his hands on the steps of the State Department in Washington: the U. S. was ruining its one friend in the Orient...
...President gave his second State function of the season, a reception for the 550 members of the diplomatic corps and their ladies. Sensation of the evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember...
Rationalization. As the National Economic Council's secondarily great work. Minister Sze described its efforts toward putting Chinese agriculture on a more up-to-date basis. Typical effort: "A Commission for the Rationalization of the Cotton Industry has been established, and is promoting the use of better cotton seed, the establishment of cooperation among cotton growers, the establishment of better marketing methods; and, in general, the rationalization of the cotton industry. Cotton weaving and spinning is already a major industry in China and, in fact, employs more labor than any other of the industries of China...
...hands like Mr. Coolidge or of saying "How do you do?" like Mr. & Mrs. Hoover, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greeted familiars by their first names, caught from aides and unerringly repeated such names as "Accioly," "Hsia," "Zaldumbide," "Garreau-Dombasle." After China's Minister and Mme Sao-ke Alfred Sze (black brocaded chiffon kimono and diamond tiara), after Siam's Minister and Princess Damras (black velvet and ermine)-at the tail end of the diplomatic line-came the first representative of Russia to appear at a White House reception in 15 years: Soviet Chargé d'Affaires...