INTERNATIONAL: Wheat Back-Slappers

Pink-cheeked from cruising in and out of Norwegian fjords, Robert Worth Bingham, President Roosevelt's wispish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was able to take the gavel with the consent of his doctors when the International Wheat Conference convened last week in London.

Out of the wreck of the World Economic Conference last year the International Wheat Conference salvaged and signed an export quota agreement which acts of the Almighty have greatly assisted its signatories to keep (TIME, Sept. 11). Of the Big Four...

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