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...first time in his ursine life, Senator William Edgar Borah, who refuses all invitations to go to Europe, broadcast last week to Europe. The whole Continent tuned in. Oppressed nations look to the ponderous, fearless Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee as their greatest champion. Oppressing Great Powers view him with logical alarm. As millions of eager, ear-straining Europeans crouched over their radio sets they heard the Senator's sonorous words and rumbling periods punctuated and all but drowned by astounding catcalls in a dozen languages, women's shrill screams, the roars...
High above a terraced garden facing the River Seine and the Eiffel Tower perches the huge, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadéro built for the Paris Exposition of 1878. On Borah Night last week 8,000 people jammed the Trocadéro Auditorium. Huge banners strung around the balconies proclaimed that 1,043 delegates from peace societies in 30 lands had been gathered by the International Union of League of Nations Associations into this, a monster Peace & Disarmament Conference, an unofficial curtain-raiser for the League's World Disarmament Conference in Geneva next February. The trouble with last...
Aristide Briand, foxy old French Foreign Minister, suggested "intervention of the United States, either independently or in collaboration with the League," a suggestion which President Hoover ignored and which made Senator Borah shout: "This proposal from Paris to intervene-in other words to employ force, for that is what it means in the settlement of the Manchurian affair-seems incredible...
...nations in Paris was broken up by nationalists and royalists. Catcalls, whistles, profanity, and shouts of "Down with disarmament!" drowned out the speeches of many eminent foreign delegates to the disarmament conference, including Alanson B. Houghton, former United States ambassador. Only the greatly amplified broadcast of Senator Borah's speech could be heard above the tumult. The admonitions and chidings of Edward Herriot, former premier, were of no avail in the face of discourtesy without parallel...
...William E. Borah--chairman of Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, commented forcefully on questions raised by President's plan to check depression and by Premier Laval's visit...