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...strongly suspect Secretary Stimson of borrowing his "bathtub" analogy- from Secretary Mellon's experience with the bathtubs of the old Bull Hotel in Cambridge, England. I recently stayed there and largely failed to solve the intricacies of the 18-inch brass and rubber stoppers with the thumb screw attachment in the same three tubs which Mr. Mellon used, and of which the Dull Hotel is justly proud (TIME, Aug. 3). There seems to be no way to manipulate to prevent a slow but steady drain. But the Hull Hotel is one of the best and most comfortable hotels...
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and his aide, Capt. Eugene Regnier, rented a small farmhouse for the balance of August. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge invited a large party to his place in Forfarshire. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes was invited to the Duke of Montrose's estate, which an engagement with General John Joseph Pershing, also a keen visitor to the moors, prevented his accepting. The General and the Ambassador were inspecting War battlefields...
...answer to the League's request for information and suggestions to facilitate the approaching conference. Actually it was a statement and a warning to the rest of the world, setting forth very clearly France's position on disarmament. The French seemed to have Messrs. Hoover and Stimson much in mind. To make sure that there would be no misunderstanding of their position in English-speaking countries the English text of the memorandum was headed by a phrase seldom seen on League documents: "Translation supplied by the French Government." Bluntly, the position of France last week on disarmament...
...Stimson. All Germans eagerly awaited the coming of Henry Lewis Stimson, first U. S. Secretary of State to visit Berlin since the War. "Mr. Stimson," said a Berlin correspondent, "will find pan-Germania in pan-Chaos...
...that was what Statesman Stimson found he said nothing about it. He arrived at Berlin, called on Old Paul von Hindenburg, on Chancellor Brüning, on Foreign Minister Curtius, was solemnly taken to see the Greek sculpture in the Pergamon Museum and lunched on venison and Moselle in a public restaurant on the Wannsee (Tub Lake). Then he departed by Hook of Holland for London, passing en route Ramsay MacDonald and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on their way to go through much the same performance...