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...George VI. After a 21-gun salute and exhibition drill from the Third Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery, he was guest of honor at a 35-place luncheon at the White House where the President wore morning clothes, then at an elaborate State Department dinner given by Secretary Cordell Hull who undoubtedly wishes that modern trade treaties could be as simply negotiated as they were in 1833. Next day, flanked by an aide-de-campand a secretary who looked like a tar-brushed Groucho Marx, the Sultan held a press conference. Overwhelmingly discreet, his reply to almost every question-including...
...camp on village property. Then a midwestern Bund convention was postponed twice because of difficulty in finding a St. Louis hall in which to hold it. Last week the Bund encountered trouble again, this time from another source. In Washington German Ambassador Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff called on Secretary Hull to announce that the German Government had again warned its 350,000 nationals residing in the U. S. that they "must not belong to" the Bund or any "possible substitute organizations of that kind." In New York Bund leaders promptly announced that since their membership for two years past...
...judges' table and figure that certain death hung over the distinguished Russian diplomat who welcomed him on his arrival (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), and presented him to Soviet President Mihail Kalinin in the Kremlin, Nikolai Krestinsky, who in Washington terms would be the right-hand man of Secretary Hull. Death also hung over former Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts who had dined with Ambassador & Mrs. Davies and entertained them at his own country place, a magnificent dacha almost as splendiferous as the former Galitsin Palace which today is Stalin's dacha (TIME...
...plane and battleships boils down to a complex problem in strategy. In current naval theory planes are employed primarily not to sink rival battleships but: 1) to scout their position, 2) to disable them by bombing, 3) to direct the fire of their own ships which may be hull down over the horizon...
...White House for an unannounced conference went Secretaries Hull & Morgenthau, Vice President Garner, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. Reluctantly, President Roosevelt later admitted that they had touched briefly on the subject of war debts. None of the conferees would say anything, but no political wiseman doubted the advice they had given the President: whatever plan was suggested Congress would not like...