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...Unkindest was the cut of L'Echo De Paris's famed "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud): "Mr. Hoover who is perhaps within a few months of political ruin ... is sticking at nothing to restore his fortunes." Japanese editors also struck the sour note that the President's proposals were mere electioneering. Icy and astute, Sir John Simon steered the British Press away from this cheap and ineffective sneer by summoning to his hotel all the British correspondents in Geneva. "I implore you," he said, "to give no emphasis to the possible bearing of Mr. Hoover's proposals on the coming presidential election...
Wrote André ("Pertinax") Geraud...
...Andre Geraud, known in the Echo de Paris as Pertinax: "The American bankers were extremely exacting about the terms of the issuance...
Correspondents were told that Negative Stimson would soon follow the lead of Positive Tardieu by laying down a similar hand for the U. S. when enough cards are on the table there can begin, not the game, but a shuffle and first deal. "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud), pungent correspondent of L'Echo de Paris, wired to his paper: "Secretary Stimson was overheard to re-mark : 1 wish this conference would waste a good deal more time...
...other side of the prize ring the Paris press stormed, catcalled. "It is possible to say," wrote famed authoritative "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud) in L'Echo de Paris, "that never before has so bitter a quarrel raged between London and Paris...