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...John Simon, Britain's Foreign Secretary and highest priced lawyer, without too much difficulty argued Mr. Gibson into believing that the Conference, which has already sat for some six months at a cost of more than $6,000,000 to the 60 nations originally represented, should adjourn until...
This threat distressed Sir John Simon. "There is such a thing as being more royalist than the king," soothed Britain's great lawyer. "But it would be a sad pity for any of the rest of us to be more 'Hoover' than the Americans...
...John Allsebrook Simon is tall, bland, very British. The breadth of his shoulders is accentuated by a neck long yet not too long. Smooth and pink, the face of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs takes on at will an innocent, babyish expression, flashes his "lightning smile" or congeals into withering hauteur. Throughout the Empire "John," as his few intimates call him, is famed as Britain's most highly remunerated barrister. Slow in walk and gesture he is lightning quick of mind and he is tireless. Last week he became Chairman of the League of Nations...
...Simon v. Davis, Meanwhile Sir John Allsebrook Simon had flown from London to Geneva. As he entered the Hotel des Bergues he was pounced upon by Norman H. Davis, U. S. Delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, who angrily protested assertions in the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain giving the impression that the U. S. Disarmament Delegates had been consulted about the various Lausanne agreements and had tacitly approved them...
...Simon Steamroller. Next day the League Council met and chose Sir John Simon to manage preparations for the Economic Conference...