REPARATIONS: Stern

Before leaving Paris for Berlin, S. Parker Gilbert Jr., Agent General of

Reparations, had a terse word to say to photographers who had conceived it to be their duty to dog his footsteps. As Mr. Gilbert is possessed with powers that might turn an absolute despot green with envy, Paris photographers decided to treat him as royalty and "snap" him with that regularity that attends their attitude toward visiting monarchs.

But American Mr. Gilbert is made of sterner stuff. Said he to the cameramen: "This is no movie show ; there are not going...

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