Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because Hugh Gibson is a dapperly-dressed, middling-sized man of only 43, and thus "the youngest U. S. Ambassador," his appearance at Geneva as U. S. Chief Delegate was at first regarded in Europe as one of U. S. President Coolidge's solemn little pleasantries...
...Hugh Simpson Gibson, Chief U. S. Delegate, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...Strife arose because the British insisted on pushing their thesis that the Washington Treaty of 1922, limiting capital ships of the U. S., Britain and Japan in the famed 5-5-3 ratio, should be modified or at least discussed at the present Parley. The U. S. Chief Delegate, Hugh Simpson Gibson, resisted the British pressure, maintaining that the Parley had been called to extend the 5-5-3 ratio to smaller ships, and not to modify it in any way. Suddenly the Japanese, previously supposed to favor the U. S. position, switched over to support British Chief Delegate...
...Rebuttal. Chief Delegate Hugh S.. Gibson was so vexed by this Japanese hint of support to the British that he retorted sharply through the press: "The economic situation [suggested by Viscount Saito] does not arise. It happens that the Washington Treaty expressly provides that no further capital ships are to be laid down until 1931. Therefore premature discussion here of capital ships could not affect the taxpayers' burden for armaments...
...there, so small, soft and yielding that she was indulging her most powerful instinct, the instinct of possession, the longing, the passionate need to possess that she had inherited from generations of fiercely grasping Gartons, men who had torn possessions from the grudging hand of life. . . . Her adoration of Hugh was rooted in the knowledge that he was hers, as nothing had ever been, as her son could...