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...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...
...John Simon soothingly assured the House of Commons that Japan had virtually withdrawn her claims in regard to China, Secretary Hull made public the "substance" of a statement he had instructed Ambassador Grew to deliver to the Japanese Foreign Office. Politely but forcefully it warned Japan against trying to establish hegemony in the Far East by stubbing other people's toes. The warning: ". . . No nation can, without the assent of other nations concerned, rightfully endeavor to make conclusive its will in a situation where there are involved the rights, the obligations and the legitimate interests of other sovereign states...
...Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...
That was in 1905. Next year the agent of a U. S. firm, reported to be the Guggenheims, appeared with an offer to buy the Salvadora mine, which Simon Patino had acquired from a Portuguese prospector in payment for a grocery bill-a deal which cost the clerk his store job. Patino wanted to sell but his wife did not. "We will go bankrupt with Salvadora," she cried, "or you will be el gran Mirador, the greatest of tin miners." Senor Patino climbed on his mule and went back to his mine...
Today, single-handed and in his own right, el gran Mirador controls some 10% of the world's tin output. Many times a millionaire, Simon Patino lives in a gaudy and fantastic palace in Paris. He warms himself at his villa in a forest of pine and mimosa above Nice. His son is married to a Bourbon princess, one of his daughters to a Spanish marquis. In Bolivia the tax on his mines is the country's chief source of revenue. In 1926 Bolivia made him Minister to France, where he bought his own embassy. Patino Mines & Enterprises...