Mrs. Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, wife of the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, is English, forthright, tart-tongued. She has never met President Herbert Hoover nor Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. But at Geneva last spring she beheld the dapper gentleman they sent to tell the League of Nations and the world for the first time about the President's disarmament plans—Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium.
"I shoul d call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled English Mrs. Litvinov not long afterward, and she had a great many...
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