Justice

Charles Evans Hughes is Secretary of State at Washington; and that fact was forcefully brought home to the Persian Government after the murder of U.S, Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie (TIME, July 28).

True, the Persian Government made a full apology and ample reparation to the Vice Consul's widow (TIME, Aug. 11, Oct. 13). It even went so far as to execute one Private Morteza; but two culpables had their death sentences commuted.

This did not please Secretary Hughes. In the interests of U. S. citizens abroad, he wanted the remaining two men shot--and shot they were. The Imperial Persian Government made that quite clear to the Government of the U.S. Persian-American relations became less strained.