Mrs. Mabel Wellington White Stimson, patrician wife of the Chief U. S. Delegate (he told English reporters on landing that two of her ancestors were Mayflowers) last week diffidently approached a lantern-jawed U. S. Marine, who was guarding her husband’s door.
“Let me just peek at him,” said Mrs. Stimson.
“You want to peek at your husband, m’am?” said the startled Marine.
“I want to see how he is looking,” smiled Mrs. Stimson as she peeked. “I haven’t seen him for 15 hours, he is working so hard.”
Mrs. Egerton Parsons, Smith College graduate, Vice Chairman of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of
War, entered St. James’s Palace last week with English, French and Japanese colleagues, confronted Males MacDonald and Stimson:
“The time has come,” said Mrs. Parsons pointing to a large wicker hamper containing the signatures of 210,000 women (30,000 U. S., 180,000 Japanese) “to lay another stone on the edifice of peace.”
Prime Minister MacDonald who was busily sorting papers, hastily slammed his briefcase shut, listened attentively.
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