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...Geneva to keep the Disarmament Conference alive, stanchly aided by U. S. Ambassador Davis. On direct instructions from Premier Mussolini, who was more than ever impatient of dawdling Geneva diplomacy last week, Italy's delegates tried to kill the Conference by urging adjournment sine die. Sir John Simon, after telephoning Prime Minister MacDonald, seemed at first to agree with the Italians but after sharp debate Mr. Davis and M. Paul Boncour won their points. Conference President Arthur Henderson was authorized to send Germany a stiff note scoring her reasons for withdrawal as "invalid." It was decided to resume Conference...
Champagne, Sec (adapted from Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Alan Child; lyrics by Robert A. Simon; Dwight...
...this, Mr. Hitler was willing to accept from the League any concession, however small, which would have made his position tenable to the anti-League agitators in Berlin. Fortifications on the Russian border, and rehabilitation of a few dismantled fortresses, would have admittedly have satisfied him; but Sir John Simon, seemingly unimaginative, withheld his cooperation, and withdrawal was the Nazi alternative. Perhaps Sir John, and Mr. Henderson, were justified in their refusal, but it is difficult to condone their flat opposition to Mussolini's compromise...
Prince Bismarck received Chancellor Hitler's "observations" on this proposed convention last week in a long code cablegram from the Wilhelmstrasse. Calling his limousine he sped to Whitehall, marched into the office of tall, frigid British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and told him that Germany cannot wait until 1938 before beginning to achieve armament equality with France. At the very least, in Chancellor Hitler's view, the Fatherland should at once be allowed to have "samples" of all armaments now denied her by the Treaty of Versailles; big guns, tanks, battle planes. Finally, even if a four...
...French Premier Edouard Daladier. speaking at Vichy, held up the Fatherland's request for "samples" and rejection of "supervision" as evidence that Germany is ruled by a "cult of force." Most striking, however, was a British warning to the Reich, said to have been dictated by Sir John Simon after he received Prince Bismarck and hastily inserted in a speech which the Cabinet's Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, was scheduled to make that night. "Any nation which deliberately prevents such an agreement [as the armament standstill] being reached," cried Mr. Baldwin, "will have no friend...