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President was still whole; that George Denver Guggenheim, 22, son of onetime U. S. Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, copper tycoon, was in town for pleasure, not to stimulate Montana's somnolent copper industry. The newshungry also learned by bulletin what they could about the results of the Olympic Games, the gist of President Hoover's acceptance speech, the trial of Mayor Walker...
Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver...
...announced that the U. S. would attend no parley which discussed reparations, debts, or specific tariff rates. Last week British Charge d'Affaires Francis d'Arcy Godolperin Osborne carried to Secretary Stimson official invitations from Ramsay MacDonald as president of the Lausanne Conference and from Sir John Simon as British Foreign Minister to take part in the coming Conference. Neither date nor place was set. An explanatory letter from Charge d'Affaires Osborne agreed to all the original Stimson requirements. Reparations, debts, and specific tariff rates will not be discussed. But the Conference will talk about international...
Dead Silence. Most embittered delegate at the Conference last week was China's Dr. W. W. Yen. He proposed an amendment which would have bound the Conference countries to abstain from the warlike bombing of civil populations, adding that he had Manchuria in mind. When Sir John Simon made two points? 1) that China and Japan are not legally at war; 2) that it would be senseless to prohibit bombing in peace time?Dr. Yen withdrew his resolution in bitter disgust...
...penitent last week was Dr. Eduard Benes, "Smartest Little Statesman in Europe," perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Benes had said, "Bombardment from the air is barbarous and inhuman." Sir John Simon pointed out that British planes often find it necessary to bomb rebellious tribesmen. Dr. Benes promptly ate humble pie, exclaiming, "Of course British flyers have never been guilty of barbarous actions...