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Saint-Jean-de-Luz, elegant village on the Atlantic Coast of France near gaudy Biarritz* had news, if few visitors, last week. A villa, said this one to that one, had been leased by the U. S. embassy at Paris for the use of Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg next summer...
Thought Mexicans: "For Mr. Kellogg, this is a remarkably unequivocal statement. He evidently wants to arbitrate. He seems to have decided that we are not Bolsheviks, and so beyond the pale of lawful arbitration." Straightway the Mexican Foreign Office issued an official statement to the press: "The Mexican Government declares that it is ready to accept in principle that its difficulties with the United States should be decided by arbitration...
Meanwhile Secretary Kellogg visited the White House. Next day "The White House Spokesman," which even Mexicans know is Washington patois for "President Coolidge," spoke. He said something to the general effect that there had been a complete misunderstanding of the Administration's attitude toward Mexico. The President, it seemed, had turned once with the Secretary to the extent of experiencing a change of heart about Bolshevism in Mexico which was now beside the point instead of being the point. But President Coolidge had not turned with Mr. Kellogg to the extent of wanting to arbitrate. Mr. Kellogg must thus...
...Hand. A long coded radio from Vice Admiral Charles S. Williams to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg caused that statesman abruptly to change his mind as follows: He had instructed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U. S. Minister at Peking, to hasten to Washington, hoping to delay action in the China crisis while he was in transit. Mr. MacMurray had duly set sail but when he reached Seoul, Korea last week, he was ordered back to Peking, went...
...Secretary then informed reporters that he could tell them nothing more because it took so long to decode Admiral Williams' messages that before one could be decoded another arrived. One report, when finally decoded, was found so terrifying that Mr. Kellogg withheld it from the public to avoid undue alarm...