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...Canada is 35 times as large as New Zealand," said New Zealand's Coates. "and let us hope her heart is proportionately generous." His Majesty's Lieu-enant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, plump, guttural J. W. Fordham Johnson, sped the delegates to their train for Ottawa. Croaked he: "Anything short of success at this Conference might well have unthinkable results...
...turned up at Santiago's Cavalry School, known to be a hotbed of his partisans. The telephone rang. General Ibanez was told by a member of the Davila Cabinet that he must get out of the Cavalry School and the capital. General Ibanez got out in 15 minutes, sped by motor to his farm near Rancagua, south of Santiago...
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...
...five minutes the Scotsman and the Irishman had disagreed flatly concerning the Free State's right to abolish her Deputies' oath of fealty to England's King. Tight-lipped and hard-eyed, President de Valera left for Dublin and the Prime Minister's car sped from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. As he has done several times before, George V succeeded in bucking up Scot MacDonald who had entered the Palace glum, emerged beaming to catch the train for Paris with Sir John Simon, his Foreign Minister. The Press asked: "Are you leaving with great hopes...
Ignoring Administration criticism, the Ways & Means Committee favorably reported the Garner measure by a strict party vote. All Democrats found themselves bound to support the bill after a stormy party caucus had ratified it (123-to-18). Mayor Murphy sped to Washington with the resolutions adopted at the Detroit conference as the final impetus to put through the House this first piece of wholesale Federal relief...