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...most distinguished statesmen rushed through the 58th session of the Council of the League of Nations last week with the haste of a trio of Babbits snatching a quick lunch. Drowsy old Aristide Briand, veteran French Foreign Minister, shambled out of The Hague Conference (see p. 25) to a wagonlit, woke up next morning in Paris, where he conversed for a half hour with "Ramsay MacDonald's Yes-Man," British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, sped him on his way to Geneva. Next day he boarded an-other wagonlit, woke up at Geneva. Waiting there was Signor Dino Grandi, spade...
Anti-Climax. An entire wagonlit full of correspondents who had accompanied the Queen from Paris were vexed by the necessity of reporting that King Ferdinand, who waited on the platform to greet his royal consort, seemed a trifle pale but by no means at Death's door. The correspondents had come in hopes of witnessing...
Significance. Newsgatherers wrote glibly for a day about "The Entente of Leghorn." They hinted profoundly at a dark deal between Sir Austen and Il Duce to "counterbalance" the Franco-German "Entente of Thoiry" (see p. 14). Then Sir Austen climbed into a wagonlit, sped to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand, returned to London. By common consent the correspondents decided that all bets in favor of an "Entente of Leghorn" were...