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...Since Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain continued, last week, to hobnob with Dutch Royalty at the Hague (TIME, April 23), it became the duty of his trusted Under Secretary, Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson to salute the House in substance as follows: His Majesty's Government considers that no useful purpose would be served by making representations to the Government of the United States respecting the repudiation by the Confederate States of their obligations to British bondholders...
Such terms do not seem "too lenient." Rather they suggest that Minister Mac-Murray succeeded better in his negotiation than did, recently, the British Minister to China Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson who has failed or refused to settle the British claims arising out of the "Nanking Outrage...
...British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, was "censured" last week as a result of sensational investigations at the Foreign Office which crescendoed in the dismissal of Assistant Under Secretary John Duncan Gregory...
...culprits' real crime was that they had transgressed the unwritten code of honor & respectability of the Civil Service. Mr. Gregory, with a salary of ?1,200 per year had mysteriously transgressed to the extent of making speculative moves in the aggregate amount of ?1,000,000. Sir Miles Lampson, the Minister to China, had barely dabbled. Intermediate between these twain were three Foreign Office officials who were disciplined, last week, according to the gravity of their indiscretions...
George Buchanan, M. P. (prominent Laborite) : "Oh, what a lie!" Mr. Locker-Lampson (answering amid hubbub a Conservative question as to how relations with Rus sia may be resumed) : "The initiative should come from the Soviet Government, whose hostile activities compelled the British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign...