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Infinitely patient U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, President Roosevelt's representative at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Nov. 22 et ante), stood deserted last week by the chief delegates of Britain, France and Russia. They had returned to their capitals, leaving second-stringers at Brussels, and leaving Ambassador Davis to keep his temper while the windup of the conference gave the Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opportunity to say that Rome "has deemed this conference entirely superfluous from the very beginning and has had no reason since to change its mind...
...millions of workers who credited him with browbeating the Cabinet of Socialist Leon Blum into decreeing nationwide shorter hours, vacations with pay. After Socialist Blum was succeeded this year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive. He enormously inflated his importance last week by appearing in Moscow to negotiate a merger between the 23,000,000 trade unionists in the Soviet Union and the 17,000,000 members of the International Federation...
...Were refused details of what took place at the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Viscount Halifax (TIME, Nov. 29 et ante), but were told by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that "the visit has been valuable in furthering the desire, which I believe to be generally felt in both countries, for the establishment of a closer mutual understanding." This sounded so pro-German that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German, succeeded in getting French Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos invited to London, where they arrived this week to try to discover where His Majesty...
Caisse Hypothécaire Maritime et Fluviale, 78 Rue de Provence, of which the managing director is Eugène Deloncle, a consulting engineer at the Penhoët shipyards, has established the existence of a secret paramilitary organization modeled on army lines. It consists of a general staff, four intelligence departments and a sanitation service...
...just babes in the woods," remarked Robert Ralph Young seven months ago when he and two other inconspicuous capitalists suddenly loomed as financial giants by buying control of Alleghany Corp., holding company for the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, May 3 et seq.). Since then a bitter autumn has swept bleakly through the financial forest. Last week it became known that the Babes in the Woods had also felt the chill wind. With no cocktails and canapes for the press such as accompanied the original Alleghany sale, it was revealed in a routine...