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Nasty insinuations against Candidate Herbert Hoover sped like wasps, last week, to buzz in a secluded and exotic Chinese garden in the village of Tongka, not far from Canton. The lord of the garden and of the village-a model village-is the venerable Tang Shao-yi, perhaps the last great statesman of the fallen Manchu Regime to survive in dignity and honor. Round his placid head the nasty rumors and insinuations buzzed. Soon...
...Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, stopped fashionably in Rome last week at the Hotel Excelsior. One morning there called for him a twinkling limousine in which sat a scrubby bearded Roman of alert, engaging mien. Soon Agent Gilbert stepped into the limousine and sped away for a day of motoring and converse with Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi, famed co-negotiator with Secretary Mellon of the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
After this heroic dose of pills and possets for the intellect, the delegates climbed aboard a special train and sped across the Norwegian Alps to Bergen...
...Delhi. From Bombay, whither sped the Seven Wise Men, plunging 700 miles into the interior, on a special, troop-guarded train? Naturally their objective was New Delhi, the superb Viceregal Capital of British India, on which some $150,000,000 has already been spent, so that the more important of its sumptuous white stone buildings already tower and glisten in the Indian...
Both Italy and Hungary, now quasi-allies (TIME, April 18), are placed in a difficult legal position, since Hungary stands officially disarmed by the Allies under the Treaty of Trianon, to which Italy was a signatory. ¶ "B" stood for Bucharest. Thence Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania sped, last week, to Rome. Emerging from a lengthy conversation with // Duce he said: "We thoroughly discussed every single problem interesting our two countries and found a perfect identity of view. This is not an idle phrase. I mean it literally. I think I have said plenty...