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Developments were ominous but of doubtful significance: 1) Tewfic Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister, and head of the Turkish League Delegation, left Geneva suddenly by the Orient Express for Angora, after declaring that dealings between his Government and Britain in the near future will be through the regular diplomatic channels. 2) From Angora, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that...
...Assembly of the League of Nations, in session for the sixth time at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 21), turned and gave ear to Count Quinones de Leon of Spain...
Austen Chamberlain came home from Geneva. Stanley Baldwin was just home from Aix-les-Bains. But it is doubtful whether either took comfort in his homecoming. For a storm seemed brewing. Unemployment, a coal subsidy, industry running down hill?and then that query from George B. Hunter, the shipbuilder, that query echoed by half a dozen of the country's industrialists: "Are we on the road to ruin?" The question put directly in a public letter to Mr. Baldwin...
...Geneva and at Paris diplomats dropped a pregnant word or two anent M. Caillaux's mission. "Set all question of figures and barter aside," said they. "If America expects any sum to be repaid by France over a period of 60 or 70 years, she is deluded. Grey-bearded men, yet unborn will not pay taxes to America in 1980. There was no Italy 60 years ago; will there be a France in 60 more? Sixty-two years ago the dollar was worth only a franc; it may be worth less than that in another...
Last week Importance bustled along the quays and streets of Geneva, Switzerland (see LEAGUE OF NATIONS Page 11). The great the ex-great, the near-great crowded its hundred hotels. Gibble-gabble yielded place to political economy. Sight-seeing became people-seeing. The world was micrographed. On Sunday morning Importance climbed a narrow road up the steep central hill toward church. It went to hear the League of Nations sermon preached by an American, whom a famed Jew, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, had described as "Fosdick?the least hated and best loved heretic that ever lived." That a heretic should...