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Last week a cavalcade of 700 fishermen and 100 horses clattered out of Helsingfors to drag the ice of the Gulf of Finland. For two days the expedition prospered, moved farther and farther out from the shore. Suddenly a shrieking, steel-grey blizzard swept down on them. With prodigious snapping and grinding a great ice floe broke away from the shore. All the fishermen and their steeds were swept out to sea on an island...
Secretary Hurley: Don't create something that will drag down our sovereignty or hurt our prestige. ... I have never repudiated that promise in any way . . . you're weakening the authority of the United States...
...That submarines be abolished (proposed by the U. S. and Britain with the covert hostility of Japan and other nations). Realistic, the Japanese attitude was to soft-soap everyone and let the Conference drag on for as long as the white men liked?months, years, or an even longer period which seemed to be envisioned by Japanese Delegate Tsuneo Matsudaira (the father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince) in these words: "When all nations sincerely desire to become good and trusted friends, when all nations are prepared to discharge faithfully their domestic and international responsibilities, when all nations feel...
There were cheers (at last) for Russia's Foreign Minister who always used to be hissed or ignored (TIME, May 6, 1929, et seq.). Only Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Munch had the courage to drag Reparations into the Conference, and also tariffs. He flayed both as potential war causes...
...back bench last week. Next the Clerk, still silent, swung his extended arm from Government to Opposition, pointed to Laborite Will Thome who promptly seconded the stereotyped nomination. It then became the duty of Nominator Sir George and Seconder Mr. Thorne to advance upon the modest Speaker designate and "drag him to the Chair...