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When the pound sterling went off gold (TIME, Sept. 28), burly, beer-bibbing Viscount Rothermere had a GREAT IDEA. He started no insidious whispering campaign to shake world confidence in the U. S. dollar and force it off gold, for Viscount Rothermere is blatant, blunt. Mornings his GREAT IDEA was shrieked by his Daily Mail (circulation 1,872,418: world's largest). Evenings his Britainwide chain of provincial papers did not hint but yelled that the dollar is unsafe. In Rothermere papers the financial page, the featured news page and the editorial page all carried staccato attacks on the dollar...
Having served the British police to the best of his ability, His Lordship Viscount Byng of Vimy published a report a month and a half ago that crimes of violence were increasing alarmingly, and retired (TIME, Oct. 5). Last week Scotland Yard had a new police chief. Following the British tradition, the appointment was given to a man who had no previous police experience whatever, Hugh Montague, Baron Trenchard...
...fourth) was the U. S. "observer," Minister to Switzerland Hugh R. Wilson. Mr. Wilson disagreed with Dr. Sze that Japan had violated the Kellogg Pact. The Council agreed with Mr. Yoshizawa that the matter was one for direct negotiation between Japan and China. "Particularly." soothed Britain's Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, "as Mr. Yoshizawa assures us that Japan is now withdrawing her troops. . . . I hope that these troops will be withdrawn as rapidly as possible." Dr. Sze could not even get the League to appoint a commission which would supervise the Japanese "withdrawal," if it was taking place. From...
...Viscount Cecil of Great Britain had a word to say about the Depression, the Hoover Moratorium, the Wiggin Report, and Franco-German amity. Said...
...when the League was formed, Mexico was suffering one of her periodic revolutions, and, considered unworthy by lantern-jawed President Wilson, was not invited to join. Last week in Geneva, bald, eagle-beaked Viscount Cecil publicly admitted his partial responsibility for this slight, apologized...