Word: gibsonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was no showdown last week in Geneva. The Japanese Ambassador did not utter his instructions, which were made known at Tokyo by the Foreign Office spokesman. Therefore they could be changed. President Hoover, through his Geneva representative and close friend Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, made every effort to get his program debated by the Disarmament Conference, knowing that Italy, Spain and many a minor nation would champion it warmly...
...Ambassador Gibson scored any success at Geneva last week it was in bringing the French delegation around to a slightly less hostile attitude toward the President's proposals. In the House of Commons last week acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (Majority) Party, said: "We can't settle matters by merely declaring we agree with the United States. . . . The most dangerous thing we could do would be to say the thing could be achieved in a certain way without first examining all the details...
Puff. Representing 29 U. S. peace-promoting organizations. Mrs Laura Puffer Morgan called on Ambassador Gibson at Geneva, gave the President's proposals a thoroughgoing puff...
Sneers, Cheers, Hubbub? In Geneva dapper, snowy-crested Ambassador Gibson amplified and emphasized his reading of the President's proposal by adding: "In our most powerful arm, the Navy, we are prepared as part of this general program to scrap more than 300,000 tons of existing ships and to forego the right to build more than 50,000 tons. In land material our proposal would affect more than 1,000 heavy mobile guns, approximately 900 tanks, and, in aviation, about 300 bombing airplanes...
Even this dramatic offer drew only perfunctory Conference applause as Mr. Gibson left the tribune. He was followed by icy Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary. "The object of this Conference," Sir John witheringly observed, "is to induce agreement. Agreement is not to be obtained by unilateral statement but by cooperation, by give & take...