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Foreign News
London Economic Conference
June, 1933
Sixty-six nations took their places last week at the long pew-like desks of the London Geological Museum, all ranged alphabetically, in French, by tactful Alfred the Seater so that Cordell Hull of Tennessee (Etats Unis) sat at the end of the row, before, not next to, the kinky-polled delegates from Addis Ababa (Ethiopie). The League of Nations organizing committee invited 67 nations but Panama was too poor to accept.
Time Magazine
Beresford presented the letter on a silver tray. Rowland opened it quickly with scant regard for the gold leaf embossing and wax seal on the envelope. Scanning the meticulous copperplate on the scallop-edged sheet within, he frowned.
“Problem, Rowly?” Clyde asked.
“A familial summons,” he said.
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