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For days afterward the U. S. State Department manifested to correspondents the apparently extreme displeasure of Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who, indeed, negotiated his famed Peace Pact with the utmost possible avoidance of concealment or secrecy (TIME, Sept. 3 et ante).
League Business done last week included: 1) Squelching a Chinese threat to withdraw from the League. Chinastates-man Wang King-ky threatened, because China has not been elected to a seat on the League Council this year. Wang was squelched by recalling to him that China cannot legally withdraw until she makes good her unpaid dues of $2,000,000. 2) Creation of a Committee of Experts "who will proceed to the Far East and study the opium traffic." 3) Unanimous adoption by the League Assembly of a resolution that women shall be employed "on equal terms with men" when new League boards are created. 4) Guarded endorsement in committee of famed Explorer Fridtjof Nansen's many-a-year-old plan "to give Armenians a national home."
Briand & Muller. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France and German Chancellor Hermann Muller returned from Geneva to their respective capitals, early in the week, and began important conferences with local politicians and financiers, looking to the successful carrying out of their great program of evacuating the Rhineland and reopening the Reparations Question (TIME, Sept. 24). Chancellor Muller discreetly hinted to correspondents that U. S. Financier Owen D. Young would be the very man to act as supervising expert of the Reparations negotiations. Tycoon Young was one of the chief authors of the Dawes Plan, is Chairman of the General Electric Co. and of the Radio Corporation of America.
*Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson,. later appointed Governor General of the Philippines.