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After reading the letter written by the Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer criticizing TIME'S use of the word "vague" in describing the Democratic platform (TIME, Aug. i), I became very much amused. It would be advantageous to the welfare of our country if leading American universities would offer instruction in logic and economics to our politically inclined friends...
Since Edward of Vales as "Empire Salesman" has visited Argentina and has not visited Soviet Russia, the Mother Country's stand last week was somewhat grotesque. At once her No. i delegate, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, was furiously attacked in England by the Hearstian papers of Baron Beaverbrook, himself Canadian-born...
Pomp & Circumstance. Punctual Mr. Baldwin was the first delegate to arrive at Canada's handsome, Gothic House of Commons for the opening of the Conference. He took the seat occupied at Parliamentary sessions by the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Liberal Ex-Premier, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in Canada and advocate of a policy of close rapprochement with the U. S., from which Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett has suavely but firmly receded...
...Cricket Spirit." In characteristic vein Mr. Baldwin and his No. 2 Muddler, the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine greaser, now Secretary for the Dominions, permitted themselves to be interviewed by the Canadian Press...
Naturally the No. 1 delegation is paramount, representing 430,000,000 people out of the total Empire population of 450,-000,000. The No. 1 delegation is headed by Lord President of the Council the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (majority) Party in Great Britain. With benign, bumbling, pipe-puffing Mr. Baldwin came lean, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; dignified President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman whose batwing tie is always straight; undignified Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who drops his h's; other delegates, secretaries, stenographers to the number...