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Interrupted by the motor strike, the Taylor-Lewis conversations were resumed the next month in Manhattan while Mr. Lewis was dealing with the coal operators. Again Mr. Lewis managed to dodge newshawks, presumably slipping into the Taylor mansion at No. 16 East 70th St. As a diplomatist Mr. Taylor had to paint for Mr. Lewis a terrifying picture of his board of directors, the men who must in the end accept or reject the settlement. To his board Mr. Taylor was painting an equally terrifying picture of Mr. Lewis and what he could do to the steel industry now that...
...that a "congenial atmosphere" for counterproposals had vanished. Nevertheless that afternoon Ambassador Ribbentrop was handed 22 pages of German typescript. With his brother-in-law, Foreign Office Division Chief Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff, and 26 other experts, he led the huge German delegation by air to London. The German diplomatist was at the British Foreign Office at the unprecedented hour of 9:55 o'clock the next morning, two minutes before Captain Eden...
...dogs of Europe and kept the trust of all, be unable to hold his own temper? Could the brilliant and tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists, victors and victims be endangered by his own indignations-could that be a man given to the passion of anger? . . . You might as effectively speak...
...last week's gigantic international game of bluff & bully overshadowed the League of Nations, but its dynamo of diplomacy whined on. The Committee of Five, instructed to find a formula for the Ethiopian crisis (TIME, Sept. 16), labored zealously under the chairmanship of Spain's Chief Delegate, idealistic Philosopher-Diplomatist Salvador de Madariaga in Geneva. At first inclined to recommend that Italy be given a status over Ethiopia similar to that which Britain holds over the nominally independent Kingdom of Irak, the Committee finally decided to recommend for Ethiopia the status recommended by the League two years ago for Liberia...
...reported a notable interview with Grey: "I think I shall never forget yesterday. There sat this always solitary man-he and I, of course, in the room alone, each, I am sure, giving the other his full confidence.'' Says Millis: "It was a dangerous illusion for a diplomatist at a moment like that one." Page soft-pedalled Wilson's sharpest notes to the British Government, drew frequent Wilsonian rebukes: "Beg that you will not regard the position of this Government as merely academic. Contact with opinion on this side the water would materially alter your view...