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Spats and squabble-across the large U-shaped table of the Council of the League of Nations kept a gavel rattling sharply, last week, as order was repeatedly commanded by Chairman Senor Aristines Aguero y Betancourt of Cuba. He, popular in Berlin, as the suave, easy-going Cuban Minister, conducted the soth League Council session at Geneva, Switzerland, with vigor, tact, address. Small Cuba sat metaphorically enthroned over the Powers due to a system of alphabetical rotation which lifts up each nation in turn to the League's High Chai...
...Passed a resolution instructing the Senate's campaign funds investigating committee to review the handling of Cuban sugar by the U. S. Food Administrator (now Candidate Hoover) during...
Capablanca. Landing at Manhattan from Buenos Aires, last week, the great Cuban chess master Jose Raoul Capablanca said: "In chess today everything is known to great players. There are no new moves, no new tactics to consider. If the game is to live and grow popular it will have to be made harder...
...Chief U. S. Delegate Hughes continued his brilliant conciliation last week, until the Cuban press began lyrically to hymn him as a "noble and apostolic figure." His work was to hold the U. S. Delegation on an ostentatious par of equality with every other, and to maneuver the most obstreperous Latins into the chairmanships of committees, where they would have to maintain decorum, not disturb it. For example, Mr. Hughes secured the election of fiery Dr. Don José Gustavo Guerrero, Foreign Minister of Salvador, as chairman of the important Public International Law Committee. Dr. Guerrero came to the Conference...
...progress, last week, was made by the International Law Committee when it recommended adoption by the Conference of a preamble to a general treaty which declared, "No state may intervene in the internal affairs of another . . .", and meandered on until one member of the committee, Senor Don Orestes Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S., was moved to declare: "These projects are so vague that it would be impossible to incorporate them into a treaty which would mean anything...