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...proof that the portraits of the Sisters de Hellebranth are worthy of serious consideration. Among the sitters who have had to choose between their canvases are Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary; Cardinal Seredi; Countess Laszlo (Gladys Vanderbilt) Szechenyi; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and her daughter Paulina; Senator William Edgar Borah. After just deliberation Mrs. Borah bought Bertha's picture. Mrs. Longworth could not make up her mind, took both...
...sharp buzz of diplomatic excitement when Washington heard he was writing "something." Some correspondents predicted it would be a "stiff note" to Japan, protesting her aggression in China. Others forecast an "important statement of U. S. policy." When Mr. Stimson finished his composition, he summoned Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, read him what he had written. Senator Borah nodded his head in grave assent, departed in silence. Next day he was not in the least surprised when he received from Secretary Stimson a public letter, addressed to him but directed at Japan. Secretary Stimson undertook...
...which, we believe, will effectively bar the legality hereafter of any title or right obtained by pressure or treaty violation . . . and will eventually lead to the restoration to China of rights and titles of which she may have been deprived." Few of the things Secretary Stimson put into his Borah letter were altogether new. Most of them had been said before by lesser men. But when Mr. Stimson said them, he made them part of the Government's foreign policy and hence important. Likewise his left-handed method of transmitting his views to Tokyo was a cause for comment...
...Powers last week. Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo from Washington that President Hoover and Secretary Stimson had "split" on the Sino-Japanese issue, the President wanting to do nothing and the Secretary of State wanting to write a stern note to Japan. Tokyo, hearing this, accepted the Stimson-to-Borah letter as "proof" that Mr. Hoover had not let Mr. Stimson write to Japan...
...Monday experienced Washington correspondents observed "great relief" in Administration quarters when Senator Borah took the limelight once again with another of his pedigreed explosions. "I do not question, of course," said Senator Borah, "the good faith of those who are urging an embargo against Japan, but I certainly question the wisdom of their program. In my opinion, the best way to advance the cause of war between this country and Japan is to do precisely what people are urging in the way of peace...