Before taking post at the Court of St. James's General Charles Gates Dawes last week appeared in Washington to confer with the Secretary of State. Also, the following occurred:
Reporter: "Mr. Ambassador, are you taking any of those silk court knickers with you to London? "
Ambassador Dawes: " Do you want a diplomatic answer or the answer that deserves?"
Reporter: "Shoot!" Ambassador Dawes: "Then you go plumb to hell—that's my business."
News cameramen pushed around for pictures.
Ambassador Dawes:"I'd better take this pipe out of my mouth, I'm a diplomat now [pause]; no,...
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