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...good British answer to this would be: "My dear old chap, I suppose you know you're talking rubbish!" But Chief British Delegate Sir John Simon was not in good form at the moment. Instead up rose charming Senor Salvador de Madariaga, the Spanish Chief Delegate. Sure of the ovation he was about to receive, he asked: ''May I tell a story of how the animals met to discuss disarmament...
...these women Senor de Madariaga promptly become Hero of the Hour. Promptly Sir John Simon and Chief U. S. Delegate Hugh Gibson went into action, tearing the gallant Spaniard's proposal to tatters, forcing the Conference Steering Committee to rule against him and to rule the miscellaneous women...
Truce? Peace proposals by Japan have kept pace with the Japanese Shanghai drive from the day it was launched, each Japanese bombardment being accompanied by a Japanese proposal that the Chinese peacefully withdraw. Suddenly last week Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, was able to inform the League of Nations Council at Geneva that on the British flagship in Shanghai harbor Chinese and Japanese representatives had met, talked for two hours, and agreed "in principle" upon terms of Japanese and Chinese withdrawal from the Shanghai area...
Those who chiefly bore the great responsibility last week were the seven Chief Delegates of the Big Seven powers at the Geneva Conference. Of these the Chief British Delegate, Sir John Simon, was in London, hastily summoned by the Japanese crisis; and the Chief French Delegate, André Tardieu, was in Paris, hastily summoned by the French Cabinet crisis. The Chief German Delegate, Heinrich Brüning, was in Berlin; and the Chief U. S. Delegate, Henry Lewis Stimson, was in Washington. The acting Chief U. S. Delegate, Hugh Simons Gibson, was not only in bed with a bad cold...
...Powers last week, Japan's attitude was that the diplomatic struggle on both fronts was one of Hypocrisy v. Hypocrisy. China was not even able to get the League Council to get the League Assembly to debate Japan last week. At Geneva all correspondents reported that Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, wasted hours and hours, forcing other members of the Council to listen to his highly abstruse arguments as to whether the Council could "legally" call the assembly, as China asked. Japan's other diplomatic front: since the Great Powers have rejected Japan's plan...