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...Debt payments stirred the Senate to noisy apprehension. As an outgrowth of the Lausanne agreement on Reparations, troubled legislators viewed it as a European united front to force Revision, if not Cancellation. There were dark intimations that U. S. diplomats in Switzerland had been consulted, had even given informal assent to the debtors' doings. This the State Department sharply denied. Raw nerves were further soothed when, largely for domestic political consumption. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah as follows...
...Japan the Foreign Office spokesman said bluntly that the "main reason" why his Government would have none of the Hoover proposals last week was the refusal of Washington to assent to what Japan has done in Manchuria. I ask you to remember," said Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, tut-tutting the Hoover proposals, "that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible...
Regally Lord Willingdon gave his assent, then administered to Sir Ralph: 1) his oath of allegiance to the King-Emperor and 2) his oath of office. That was all for the day, except more ear-splitting salutes followed by "God Save the King...
Advancing to within twelve paces of the Throne, Sir Evelyn Howell, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, loudly asked viceregal assent to proceed with creation of the new Governor's Province and with the installation as Governor of Lieut. Col. Sir Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith, recently the British Resident of Waziristan* but formerly a popular British officer in Peshawar...
...stiff note" to Japan, protesting her aggression in China. Others forecast an "important statement of U. S. policy." When Mr. Stimson finished his composition, he summoned Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, read him what he had written. Senator Borah nodded his head in grave assent, departed in silence. Next day he was not in the least surprised when he received from Secretary Stimson a public letter, addressed to him but directed at Japan. Secretary Stimson undertook at legal length to answer Senator Borah's question as to whether Japan's hostilities against China...