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What made the conference unusual was that it apparently violated an ancient custom that all diplomatic matters be conducted by foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make...
...undignified toadying to a foreign country? disappeared for the time being into a mist of postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick (TIME, May 6), headed for London to confer. Waiting for him. Ambassador Dawes, like any tourist, lunched at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, sat in Dr. Johnson's chair, ate two helpings of veal pie, smoked a long churchwarden pipe...
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...continue to place a premium on such action, and take no steps to punish it, future transatlantic planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...
...English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained a better education than the other senior. But with the existing inequalities among the departments it is not always true that the senior...