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...Washington sentiments more refined but no less friendly to Ethiopia were conveyed by that snowy-crested Tennesseean, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to pained and noncommittal Italian Ambassador Augusto Russo. Mr. Hull, putting his very soul into the word, said that the Adminis-tration was "concerned." That he should be so, retorted Italian Government officials next day, caused them to be "surprised" and there the matter rested, except that Benito Mussolini gave one of his now extremely rare direct quotation interviews to Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor Jr. of the St. Louis Star-Times...
...audience last week the Prime Minister chose that most tactful and sympathetic of men, President Roosevelt's grey and graceful little "Disarmament Ambassador," Norman H. Davis. The chat at No. 10 between Scot MacDonald and Tennesseean Davis made clear that if the scheduled 1935 Naval Conference is held at all, it will be not a Disarmament but an Armament Conference. Somewhat pathetically the Prime Minister uttered Earl Beatty's arguments which are, in a nutshell, that Japan's new truculence and her seizure of Manchukuo make it imperative to strengthen the Royal Navy...
...week sailed Edward Albright of Gallatin, Tenn. to become Minister to Finland. It was the first trip abroad for this small, grey-haired publisher and editor of the Sumner County (Tenn.) weekly News. This appointment was the only one asked of the President by his good friend and fellow Tennesseean, Secretary of State Hull. Declared Minister Albright: "I'll perhaps do a bit of writing for the paper as the folks in Gallatin and all the countryside sort of know me and would like to know what it seems like abroad...
Secretary Hull will have a fellow Tennesseean to work with in the person of Norman Hezekiah Davis, President Hoover's Man-About-Europe, chairman of the U. S. delegation to the Disarmament Conference...
...Minister as much as admitted that the U. S. and Great Britain will never sign a pledge to intervene for the preservation of peace in Europe, but he appealed to Continental states to sign, especially to Germany and Italy. Seated on the U. S. Delegation's bench, Tennesseean Norman H. Davis drawled complacently, "He's got religion...