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Ambassador von Ribbentrop did net hurry in August to his new post. In early October he was still in Berlin and 17 visiting members of the French Chamber of Deputies cornered him at a tea with this question: "Can you assure us that the settlement of the World War is now final insofar as any German claims are concerned?" Flushing darkly, von Ribbentrop finished his tea at a gulp, stalked off to Das Büro Ribbentrop. His 15-year-old son, he presently announced, would go in England to swank Westminster School, although there is in London a special...
...glint behind his thick- lensed spectacles, stoop-shouldered Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras left Geneva last week where he had been representing his country at the League Council's 96th session (TIME, Feb. 1). That suave diplomat, onetime obstetrician, had now delivered for Turkey a League settlement of the Turkish-French dispute over the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta which Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk had demanded that France hand to him from her Syrian mandate (TIME...
...administration under supervision of a League High Commissioner of French nationality, 2) it shall owe allegiance to Syria three years hence when France gives up her Syrian mandate, 3) Turkey and France shall "guarantee its international integrity." Foreign Minister Dr. Aras knew that this "strictly legal and just settlement" would give Dictator Kamal Atatürk virtual dominion of Alexandretta, that Turks would have free access for their goods through Alexandretta's economically vital port...
Optimistic were the 1937 economic surveys of China's great Shanghai banks. They pointed out that New Year's is the day on which Chinese businessmen expect each other to have all outstanding debts settled, rejoiced that 1937's dread "settlement day" last week brought not a single Shanghai business or bank failure. As every Chinese shivers to recall, the 1935 and 1936 settlement days bristled with seemingly catastrophic bankruptcies, "but China, like England, always muddles through...
Most success for the A. A. A. has come within business and professional groups which have established arbitration principles in contracts. Examples: the fur industry, actors and architects. Stock exchange firms have popularized an arbitration clause in customers' agreements, paving the way for settlement of such controversies as the one in 1935 involving $500,000 worth of Alleghany Corp. preferred stock (TIME...