THE CABINET: Quietly

Quietly, indeed nearly unnoticed, Alanson B. Houghton sailed with his secretary on the Majestic, to resume his duties as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Recalling what shocks had rebounded from his informal talk to newspapermen in Washington (TIME, April 5), he refused to permit the ship-news reporters to quote him on anything.

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