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...Borah -Personally, I am not favorable to any intervention of any kind under any circumstances...
...Wednesday evening, Chairman William Edgar Borah of the Senate's potent Foreign Relations Committee had dinner alone with President Hoover. On Thursday Premier Laval arrived from France for White House "discussions." Through an "oversight," Senator Borah's invitation to the White House dinner that night did not arrive until 6:30 p. m. On Friday afternoon the first of the Hoover-Laval discussions got underway. Simultaneously, a dozen agreeably surprised French newspaper correspondents and some 30 U. S. newshawks were ushered into the big meeting room of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate Office Building, their request...
...Borah - I expect France to determine for herself how far she can afford to disarm, and I shall not find fault with her judgment. My opinion is that there is not going to be any disarmament by Europe until things are changed considerably...
...Borah-To begin with, I think there will have to be some changes in the Versailles Treaty . . . the Polish Corridor, for instance. And there is Hungary. She is divided into five parts and so long as she is divided that way they will keep their division by force of arms. You cannot expect Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and Rumania to disarm while a part of the territory they have is in dispute...
...Borah-I am not sufficiently familiar with the physical conditions there to determine what arrangements could be made...