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...colleagues, despite the Soviet Army of 800,000 men. But Comrade Litvinov does really believe in total disarmament and has frequently presented a plan calling for reduction, not limitation, of armaments, according to a mathematical formula. He blazed with anger in 1929 when little U. S. Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson privately denounced the Litvinov Plan as presented in bad faith, then presented a plan of his own paralleling its two most important points...
...should call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled British-born Mrs. Litvinov...
...welched, declined to carry out the understanding that the Harriman should be saved. All last week the Clearing House squabbled about what should be done. Finally Secretary Woodin put an end to argument, announced that he had asked Manufacturers Trust Co.. headed by indefatigably public-spirited Harvey Dow Gibson, to take over the Harriman's assets and promptly pay depositors in full-"without risk" to itself for it was reported that the Treasury intended to hold the members of the Clearing House to their moral obligation. No Harriman came forward like the Cones to rescue depositors...
...flimsy hall put up by the City of Geneva for the Disarmament Conference (TIME, March 14, 1932). Sitting down at cheap pine desks, they prepared to make Imperial Japan such an outcast as no Great Power has ever been made before. In the Assembly lobby only Hugh S. Gibson, tall, sleek U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, was seen to smile at and briefly chat with small, tense Japanese Chief Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, a diplomatic Napoleon who knew he stood at Waterloo...
Because Geneva hoped and believed that Washington will back up the League, Assemblymen looked askance at Chatter Gibson. Unruffled, he strode to a group of seats just outside the Assembly's pale on which sat assorted U. S. and Russian diplomats, the latter headed by Soviet Minister to Finland Boris Stein. No Foreign Minister of a Great Power was present except France's debonair Mâitre Paul-Boncour. Few Assemblymen even wore frock coats. This was to be a little fellows' day, although Britain, France, Germany and Italy stood ready to back up at last...