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Actual Progress made at the World Conference last week was solely in the realm of wheat. The "Big Four" wheat exporting countries (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) had been held up for a fortnight while Australia's dapper, grey-spatted Resident Minister in London. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, badgered his Government by cable at 40? per word to join the others in some sort of wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next...
...London Economic Conference long enough last fortnight to march to Leicester Square and open an art exhibition at swank Leicester Galleries. It was no ordinary exhibit that broke busy Secretary Hull's busy routine, for on display were the latest paintings of his good friend Edward Bruce. But not until Secretary Hull, surrounded by can vases depicting Power. Industry, the Klamath River, the Cascade Mountains and the like, had said a few pleasant nothings did London and the rest of the world wake up to the fact that Artist Bruce was a regular assistant to the U. S. Delegation...
After contrasting such empire-builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...
Australia, according to cables reaching the London Financial Times, stood resolved last week to hold aloof from the Morgenthau wheat pact, thus rendering it unfeasible, but her dynamic Resident Minister in London, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier, kept pestering Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons daily with long, urgent dispatches at 40? per word. Meantime as dry heat seared a U. S. crop already short, wheat soared 13? a bushel for the week. Texas wheat...
...farmer is further protected by French tariffs and quotas raised against the world's great wheat growing states (see p. 17). With bread prices bound to rise, French papers bristled last week with indignant plaints headed THE DEAR LIFE (La Vie Chére). On the Riviera rich Bruce Bundy of Los Angeles announced a plan to form an island colony "as a refuge from high French prices and the depreciated dollar." Socialite colonists would purchase all their necessary luxuries on a co-operative basis. Reported ready to join the colony were Mme Jacques Balsan, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt...