The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-26
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEAR son and
ROBERT =. ALLEN.

VXTASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Six-
w foot-Six Sir Ronald Lindsay.
His MajeSty's Ambassador to the
United States. slipped into the State
Department after it was almost
closed the other night and climbed
the back stairs because the eleya-
tors were not running.
CloSeted with Corde1 Hull Tor
more than an hour. he told the in
side secret of why the japanese
suddenly had halted their plans 20
seize North China.
The Foreign Office in London had
called in rotund Ambassador Mat
Sudaira. uncie-ln-law Of the En-
peror, TOLD him that if the League
of Nations applied sanctions against
Italy for conquering Ethiopia =
should also apply them against
Japan for stealing North China;
that Britain was ready to go to bat
for this policy.
Shortly afterward. Secretary Hull
went down the back stairs OF the
State Department, motored TO the
formation to Roosevelt just before
the Presidents train departed for
Warm Springs at $50 p. m.
EOUR years before this-almoSt to
4 the month-Sir Ronald Lind
say used to come down to the State
Department TO confer with Secre-
tary Henry L. StimSon.
At that time he nodded assent
while StimSon lectured him on the
dangers of japanese aggression in
Manchuria The Japanese move
into Manchuria. StimSon said. was
but the f1rst step. 1t would be fol-
lowed by the conquest of North
China. then the Yangtze Valley,
stronghold of British trade, then
South China and Hongkong.
Mr.. StimSon also held lengthy and
vigorous transatlantic telephone
conversations with his old friend,
Ramsay Mcdonald, prime minis
ter of the national government. Mac
Donald agreed with him emphat-
ically. promised cooperation, a def
mite Anglo American front.
But whenever Ambassador Cam
eron Forbes in Tokyo delivered one
of Secretary StinlsonS vigorous pro-
tests to the japanese foreign Of
fee, the British ambassador called
an hour or so later to say that Great
Britain thoroughly understood the
japanese position.
And when Secretary Stimson fin
| ally went to Geneva himself to en-,
list the support of Europe's premieS
for definite sanctions against ia
pan, the only semblance of support
he could get was from Italy.
Ramsay Macdonald, who agreed
with him personally, could not swing
the Tories who ruled his cabinet.
Thus the British in 1892 spiked
at Geneva the principle for which
they are fighting today.
HENRY L. STIMSON came back
Il IL crestfallen from Geneva. He
had tried to set an example for
peace. He had tried to block ia
pans initial move toward engulf-
ing all China. He had tried to boil
ster the League of Nations. And
the British had stabbed him in the
! back
After Roosevelt was elected-bub
before he assumed Stimson
went out to see him. came away
elated. He had sold the President
elect his policy in the Far East.
Since then international initiative
has been reversed. The British have
been doing the talking The State
Department has been doing the lis
| tening.
The only difference is that Roose-
welt, as well as he can under tho
neutrality laws. is backing the BriA-
ish up to the hilt
Note-On the night the armies
of Japan were poised outside the
Great Wall, ready to take North
China, the Chinese Ambassador.
Alfred SEE, was throwing a resplen-
dent dinner for Mayor Mansfield OF
Boston.
| u n
! looming date on the capitals
~ program is a tea on Dec. 2, to
which the invitations read. in part:
Captain Tamon Yamaguchi
Japanese Naval Attache At Home
In The Chinese Room Mayf1oWer
Hotel PINK OF CONDITION"
The persistence with which Her.
bert Hoover's intimates enthuse over
| his buoyant health is considered
highly significant. The rhapsodies
are viewed as having all the ear
marks of campaign propaganda.
During the ex-President's latest
| trip East, members of his encourage
missed no opportunity to regale re-
porters with tales of his endurance
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