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...first real outpopping of honest, controversial opinion, at the Sixth Pan-American Conference, came last week, in Havana, as the delegates were about to adjourn their stale and stuffy sittings...
Conde Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue. Last week, as he sailed on the S. S. Munargo for Havana, he said that from April on he would edit and print an edition of Vogue in Germany. French and British editions already exist...
Automobile headlights threw a low glare over the Army polo field at Havana as Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh settled himself in the Spirit of St. Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis...
...Sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.) transferred most of its business, last week, from open and public committees to closed and secret subcommittees. With the consequent choking off of oratory, there ensued a modest modicum of progress: ¶ The text of a Pan-American Aviation Treaty was drafted. A vital clause confirms to the U. S. a right to make treaties with the Republic of Panama in such fashion as to exclude foreign air snoopers from the vicinity of the Canal. The treaty as a whole sponsors the "establishment and operation of practicable inter-American...
Opening under every kind of auspicious omen, with the beneficent visits of the silent man of Washington and the Lone Eagle hardly a month away, the Sixth Pan-American Congress at Havana has so far discussed two points of importance in the western hemisphere, and has reached a deadlock on both points. The Pan-American method of settling such deadlocks amicably for both sides is a happy one. The matter is first threshed out around the conference table. After two, sometimes three days of eulogy, defamation and near duelling, the matter is put into the hands of a sub-committee...