Word: note
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Though mercilessly destructive in the main, the French note contained a brief constructive suggestion for a Mediterranean naval accord between France, Britain, Italy and Spain?a country not invited to the London parley. Since October, Spain has waited hopefully for an invitation. Spurred by the French note, she last week virtually demanded admission, Dictator Primo de Rivera citing "Spain's duty to intervene . . . because of her geography and history...
Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, is tired of having Ambassador Herbette walk in with diplomatic notes from powers who do not recognize Soviet Russia. He was tired the first time it happened. When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy...
...Pardon, Your Excellency! I cannot undertake to receive such a note from a third-class power...
...sorry-but Excellency, you must realize that my Government's instructions to deliver this note are definite...
Poised like a puzzled poodle with a bon-bon on his nose, M. Herbette wondered what on earth to do with Rumania's note. He tried laying it on Comrade Litvinov's desk. With an impatient gesture the Russian flicked it away. The Frenchman flushed a dark red, stung to the quick of honor, but kept his temper by an effort really superhuman for a diplomat...