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...visits home. "The breakdown in street cleaning and trash removal seems symptomatic of a general decline in urban public services," he reports. "Certainly public transport in a city like New York is a disaster. The subway system is one of the dirtiest I have ever seen ?worse than London???and is by all odds the hardest to use. A visitor now is usually spared the rigors of long rail journeys because there are hardly any trains. Even airline efficiency in the U.S. is no longer so great. I have seldom experienced anything in Europe that approaches those hour-long...
King to King. With most Italians feeling last week that evidently Britons do not understand how little Italy wants in Africa, their Little King sat down in his Quirinal Palace and wrote to King George, asking him to explain things in London??? or so the British Reuters Agency reported. George V, having finished up his Scottish grouse shooting, announced that he would return to Buckingham Palace this week several days ahead of schedule. All his life a practical Navy man, His Majesty was far more alive than politicians like Squire Baldwin to the queer fact that big guns have...
Whether to laugh at this proposal or take it seriously was a problem the Conference simply did not face last week. A train carried Chancellor von Papen to Berlin, another sped Premier Herriot to Paris. Sir John Simon had already left for London???all three to consult their Governments. In Lausanne, where the Reparations Conference was not supposed to discuss military matters anyway, it adjourned pro tempore...
...Irish Free State, impatient, has passed a law barring any Irishman from exercising his right to appeal from a decision of the Irish Free State Supreme Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London???which is in fact the Empire Supreme Court. Last week the Constitutional Committee of the Imperial Conference, far from frowning on Ireland's action, seemed disposed to try and escape from the necessity of constituting an "Empire Tribunal" by pointing out to other dominions that they could do what the Free State has done...
Salt & Opium. As he painfully kept up his 200-mile walk, last week?not like an imaginary Statesman Stimson trudging to London???but as the unique "Recpolman" Gandhi, breathless spectators watched...