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...observed: "It will still require a considerable period of hard work before an agreement ... is reached." An impression lingered that the Prime Minister had embarrassed the President by flaunting the fact that at the Five-Power Naval Conference (of which Mr. Hoover approves) it may happen that the whole Anglo-U. S. naval accord will be thrown into just the sort of European squabbling-pot so distasteful to most U. S. Senators...
Though no inkling was given at Geneva of what the prime minister would say, White House correspondents understood last week that substantial Anglo-U. S. agreements, had been reached on the following points...
...York and a large part of the East undergo a seachange. Across the landscape has been appearing a horde of mollusk shells, artistically represented in red and yellow, with the letters SHELL prominently inscribed upon them. Oil men know that the letters stand for Royal Dutch Shell, great Anglo-Dutch rival of Standard Oil, and for its U. S. subsidiaries-Shell Union and Shell Eastern Petroleum...
...which Germans yearn with a passionate desire not fully realized in other countries-is swift, complete evacuation of the 60,000 Allied troops still occupying the Rhineland. Last week the short, soft fingers of the statesman from Berlin seemed to have virtually within their stubby grasp an Anglo-French agreement to evacuate the Rhineland at the latest...
Rudyard Kipling is singled out and flayed as having done more than anyone else to convince Anglo-Saxons by his pungent tales and swaggering rhymes that Indians are a conglomeration of "new-caught sullen peoples half devil and half child" and "a lesser breed without...