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...Wall Street, sent him to Geneva as one of the two U. S. Democratic delegates to La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with the importance of Mr. Davis, his importance has continued great in delving and dickering around Europe...
Great Britain launched her plan in Geneva only after British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon had twice postponed his launching speech last week, twice altering it into a form slightly more favorable to Germany. As Berlin's independent Vossische Zeitung dryly observed: "The empty [German] chair at Geneva has done better service for the German cause than could have the most impassioned pleadings of the German delegate...
When the Council re-convened it waited 20-minutes for China's Dr. Koo, while Chinese underlings explained to newshawks that "in-the Orient" such tardiness is "a sign of grave dissatisfaction." Unimpressed, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and French War Minister Paul-Boncour frankly dozed while Dr. Koo spoke for 90 minutes, threatening to revive China's boycott of Japanese goods, sarcastically observing. "If we believed everything the Japanese delegate told us we would be forced to believe that meek Japan is being devoured by ferocious China!" and hurling this challenge to the Council, "The time...
...Surmised from guarded remarks by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, who later left by plane for Geneva, that he will propose to the Disarmament Conference a pact under which all nations would "renounce force...
...ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). If anything could make you believe that old John Brown, hero-villain of Osawotamie and Harper's Ferry, was a great soul, God's Angry Man could. Author Leonard Ehrlich has stuck close to facts but insists his book is a novel, not biography or history. Its tone is sombre without relief. As the cumulative tragedy comes to its climax few readers will wish for any but the inevitable outcome. For a man who had lived the life of old John Brown, his end was best...