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Said Capitalist Davies on his return to Moscow: "The most striking impression I gathered from my trip was the universal use of the profit motive throughout Soviet industry as an incentive to workmen. I visited factories where the 'Stakhanovites' were receiving twice and thrice the wages of other workmen. In plants we visited the directors were all men of between 35 and 40. The average age of the workers was between 23 and 27. The best organization seemed to be in factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than in the United States. About a quarter of the workers in all factories we visited were women who appeared to be doing exactly the same kind of work as men. The youth of the Soviet workers and engineers and managers was striking. Laboratories are well developed everywhere. My eye was struck by the manner in which each factory is training its engineers in the factory itself."
This was an evidence of industry-mindedness on the part of Ambassador Davies which Soviet officials have seen in no previous envoy to their Union. He is in fact the first to make even a quick inspection tour of an important section of Red Industry. Typical of 99% of the Moscow diplomatic corps are the British who carry on with a dimly-lit Embassy front hall in which concealed lamps floodlight full-length oil paintings of King George V & Queen Mary in the most elaborate of royal robes. Nobody in the British Embassy sees any more than he can help of the "bloody Bolshies" and their walks are mostly taken in the Embassy's high-walled garden. This week Ambassador & Mrs. Davies are rushing their hardest to complete nearly 50 courtesy and return calls on the other diplomats & wives. They must hurry for they have set themselves much to do before May 12.
Sea Cloud to Coronation. To the 1932 campaign fund of Franklin Roosevelt $25,000 was chipped in by Judge Robert Worth Bingham, and he has got an amazing money's worth in return as Ambassador to the Court of St. James. The Jubilee of George & Mary, the great King-Emperor's demise, the numerous pageants of King Edward's accession, the shocker of abdication, and yet another colorful, majestic burst of accession pageantry for George VI have all thrilled the Bingham family.
Mr. & Mrs. Davies chipped $17,500 into the 1936 Roosevelt campaign coffers. Months ago they leased for a reputed $10,000 quite the most magnificent house available for the Coronation. Its grounds are so extensive that one can go canoe-sailing in the lake, although this home of the second Mrs. Marshall Field III is in the heart of fashionable London. Not many years ago it was upon Mrs. Field, not Mrs. Simpson, that Edward danced attendance, lavishing flowers daily.