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...propose to hear Mr. Gibson now! If Dr. Rutgers will tell me exactly how long he wants to speak I may make a bargain with...
Supported by Italy, Germany and Russia but outmaneuvered by Britain and France, lean, nervous U. S. Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson abandoned last week his efforts to secure acceptance by the Geneva Conference of President Hoover's resounding One-Third-Armament-Reduction proposal (TIME, July...
...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...
...Gibson's Choice. . . . When Britain's "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, President of the Conference, tried to give Ambassador Gibson the floor to urge adjournment there was immediate protest. Before Mr. Gibson could reach the rostrum Dutch Delegate Dr. V. H. Rutgers, rose shouting: "Which other delegates will participate in immediate discussion...
While Ambassador Gibson modestly turned around and started back to his seat, "Uncle Arthur" boomed...