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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the U. S. is not a League member state, there next arose the delicate question of how Aristide Briand might properly convey the good news from Bolivia to Frank Billings Kellogg. As French Foreign Minister, M. Briand could have addressed Mr. Kellogg in his capacity of Secretary of State; but as chairman of the League Council, M. Briand could not so address...
...Gordian Knot was cut when M. Briand summoned to his Paris office Norman Armour, Charge d'Affaires of the local U. S. embassy, and asked him to transmit a note from the League, not to Secretary of State Kellogg, but to Chairman Kellogg of the Pan-American Conference...
Charge d'Affaires Norman Armour pondered the proposition well, then announced that he would do as M. Briand wished, ''upon the distinct understanding that what is being asked is merely a courtesy...
Petulant and glum, last week, was the mood of famed Actor-Manager M. Sacha Guitry. Sacré bleu! Why were not more people clambering to see his Charles Lindbergh-his "heroic melodrama" in 30 scenes? What could be the matter? Had not finickiest critics praised the piece (TIME, Dec. 3.); and had not the first few audiences risen to shout "Vive Lindbergh! Vive La France...
...Wang. They knew that he was negotiating with Japanese Consul General Shichitaro Yada; and they thought both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting, dispose...