WORLD DELEGATES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1933, Page 5

WORLD DELEGATES

PERSONALITIES At CONFERENCE LONDON, June 2L While one sensed ag he surveyed the delegates to the .World Economic Conference that many, had the natural ability to assume the immobility or poker playefs, he must nevertheless have realised that compared with. Dr. T V. Sooug (China) , and Count ishii (Japan) the rest possessed, the open features of schoolboys. ■ There was General Smuts, sharpfeatured and white-haired, eagerly renewing friendships. . Sir John Simon and Mr Chamberlain were gossiping in French and in their own tongue, animatedly gesticulating as it there was no trouble in the world M. Daladier (France), a robust, thickset mail with full eye s and hair pulled across to disguise rapidly approaching baldness, radiated goodwill. M. Hymans (Belgium), with thick grey hair and a reserved, fhoughful manner, provided a perfect foil to M. Daladier. -.- a Behind them was Tekla Hawaii at, from Ethiopia, with the physique of a wrestler and amazingly curly hair. Near by Afifi Pasha (Egypt) might have been mistaken for a West End clubman, but Sifjnor Nicolau Dolwer (Spain) appeared to create a circle around him with the dignity and deliberation of. a hidalgo. Signor Jung, Signor Mussolini’s financial right-hand man, might have stepped from any important banking parlour. Mr J. Connolly (Ireland), on the. other hand, might typify any avocation. The Americans, Mr Cordell Hull and Mr James Cox, were disposed to be smilingly aloof. All the delegates were much intrigued by the only woman within the official barrier. She wore a mauve dress, ana was an expert attached to one delegation.