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Against the Simon plan of partial rearmament for Germany and disarmament for the rest of the world, Louis Barthou held out vigorously for Benito Mussolini's plan to freeze armaments at the status' quo...
With an expression of deep pain Chinese Minister Quo Tai-Chi sat in the diplomats' gallery while Stanley Baldwin continued the Government's case: "One of the conclusions to which I have been driven is that there is no such thing as a sanction which will work which does not mean war. In other words if we adopt sanctions we must be ready for war, and if we adopt them without being ready for war we are not honest trustees of the nation. ... If this country is giving Europe a collective guarantee or collective sanctions, it means...
China was not interested in the spectacle of Stanley Baldwin girding himself for battle, but she screamed with rage at Sir John Simon's denial. In London Minister Quo Tai-Chi would not let himself be quoted, but someone known as "an official in high Chinese quarters" announced...
...London Chinese Minister Quo Tai-Chi bustled around to see Sir John Simon at the Foreign Office. Shortly after. U. S. Ambassador Bingham conferred with Minister Quo Tai-Chi. In Washington Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, popped in on Stanley K. Hornbeck, Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs at the State Department. Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito visited Undersecretary of State William Phillips, while Secretary of State Hull called on President Roosevelt. In Tokyo British Ambassador Sir Francis Lindley dropped in at the Foreign Office and next day handsome, deaf U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew went ambling around...
Great changes must be made; no thoughtful person can desire the permanent existence of the status quo. Things that served their purpose well a few years ago are not necessarily best fitted to meet the needs of the future. Some things must be scrapped. The common man must be given an opportunity to lead a happier life. Everyone who desires a job and is competent, must, from sheer justice, be given an opportunity to hold one; the country is duty bound to accomplish this even at the expense of forcing the permanent discontinuation of the huge bonuses paid to industrialists...