Foreign News: Conference Notes

Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, spent a busy-dizzy week-end entertaining the entire U. S. delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton’s cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund (“on conciliation with America”) Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: “One of the most interesting days of my life. … To me all this is sacred ground.”

Dino Grandi, spade-bearded Fascist delegate to the London conference, was the sensation of Mayfair drawing rooms by wearing, with formal evening dress, white collar and tie, a black shirt.

Sisley Huddleton, suave cosmopolite, journalist, bon vivant, author (In and About Paris; Louis XIV in Love and War; Europe in Zigzag) radioed to the Christian Science Monitor: A MORE DREARY SET OF NEWSPAPER MEN THAN IS NOW TO BE MET IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL IT HAS NEVER BEEN MY LOT TO ENCOUNTER.

George Bernard Shaw, sitting next to U. S. delegate Dwight Whitney Morrow at Tea at Cliveden, country home of Lady Nancy Astor. said: “The next battle of Jutland will be between Britain and America, and I do want the Americans to win!”

King George V let it be known that all proceeds from the sale of phonograph records of his speech at the opening of the conference will be devoted to providing free radio sets for British blind.