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William Tatem Tilden broke even. He was ousted from amateur play by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association (TIME, July 30) and he was temporarily reinstated for the finals of the Davis Cup play by the U. S. L. T. A. at the behest of Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France. Gallantly, recklessly he conquered Rene Lacoste of France, and was later trounced in straight sets by Henri Cochet of France. Ambassador Herrick, a quick-acting diplomat, knowing that the French would not feel satisfied unless Tilden was in action, promptly said the necessary words...
Therefore Mr. Herrick must have received with pain, last week, a thoroughgoing flaying administered by M. Andre Geraud, famed as "Pertinax," redoubtable Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris. Seizing upon a rumor that the Ambassador was about to resign, "Pertinax" apostrophized...
Explaining, "Pertinax" went on to charge that Ambassador Herrick has been "so good a friend to France" as to have unwittingly deceived her statesmen by his own Francophility into th King that the U. S. would...
...everyone knows, Ambassador Herrick carried this latter proposal personally from French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg (TIME, July 4). The refusal of Mr. Kellogg to sit down to diplomatic tea for two with M. Briand and his subsequent invitation to all nations to sign a multi-power pact has constituted one of the most distasteful rebuffs suffered by French diplomacy since...
Doubtless anticipated by "Pertinax," last week, was an immediate denial from Ambassador Herrick that he intends to resign...