National Affairs: Rebuke

The "ineptitude" of Sir Auckland Geddes (onetime [ 1920-24 ] British Ambassador at Washington), the "tender bosom" of Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the "ignorance, stupidity or arrogance" of the British Commonwealth of Nations—all were last week rebuked by a patriotic U. S. woman—Miss Sophy Stanton, moderately famed granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin McMasters Stanton.

Indignant because Sir Auckland had carped at the U. S. Chinese policy, Miss Stanton at great length cabled her retorts to the editor of the London Times. Her message consisted chiefly in references to...

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