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...industries throughout the world. Stanchest supporters of this scheme were the U. S. delegates, including Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady who had to rush back to Washington to deal with U. S. strikes when the Conference was not quite half over; French Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux; New Zealand Delegate W. H. T. Armstrong. Stanchest opponents were the United Kingdom delegates headed by Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Secretary of Labor...
Incensed by London's stand, New Zealand's Armstrong thundered: "The British Government and British employers, who for years have been the keystone of the opposition to shorter hours, this time have been virtually abandoned by all the Dominion Governments and have had to keep India working more than usual to support their arguments publicly. The movement among the self-governing Dominions away from British toward American leadership on labor questions- which began with the American entry into the I. L. C.-has now developed to this point...
Sirs: Correction TIME, May 17, p. 24, col. 2: Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrøm bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Sjaelland (not Zealand) to the east coast of Fyen (not Fünen), viz.: the Storstrøm bridge connects Sjaelland to the north with a small island lying north of Falster on the direct line to Berlin over Gedser-Warnem...
...colleagues was some assurance that they would help meet the expense of arming the Empire. His trump card, the British Navy, has been worth least in Canada, more in South Africa where he hopes to trade on it for a Dominion-supported air force, most of all in New Zealand and Australia. In 26 years, Australia has spent $350,000,000 on naval defense, largely on her nine warships and the defenses of her home ports, facts on which Colleague Lyons cannily harped last week. With the British Navy in the Atlantic and the U. S. Navy in the Pacific...
With these weighty questions broached, the Imperial Conference took a long weekend, South Africa's Hertzog and New Zealand's Savage spending it with Mr. Baldwin at "Chequers." This week the conferees hoped to get down to real business...