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...there a filibuster? Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made several long speeches against the Court, denouncing the propaganda which had been poured out favoring it, and had the clerk read for an hour and a half a long article by Andrew Carnegie. Senator Borah made a vigorous speech against the Court. Senator Hiram Johnson, another opponent, spoke for several hours. So did Senator Harreld of Oklahoma. And young Senator LaFollette made a maiden speech, an able but not a spectacular speech lasting three hours. He read the speech for three hours, completely at his ease, speaking clearly, from time...
...Before Congress reassembled, the President was busy seeing members of that body. Senator Borah was with him one night for dinner. Senator Smoot dropped in with friends. Others came to see, to urge or to inquire...
...rate the President let it be known that the U. S. would be represented-officially, not unofficially?at the preliminary meeting. With Senator Borah he formulated three prerequisites for U. S. participation in a disarmament conference...
...these terms Senator Borah capitulated on behalf of the irreconcilables, and the President announced acceptance of the invitation to the preliminary meeting. The three reservations really apply not to the preliminary conference, but to the real disarmament conference which is to follow; but by presenting them to the preliminary conference, the agenda there drawn up may be such as to facilitate U. S. participation in the succeeding conference?a matter which still remains undecided...
...journalistic conjecture cast about for the most likely representatives at the conferences. The consensus of opinion for the preliminary conference seemed to be Hugh Gibson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland; for the disarmament conference (if attended): Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Oscar W. Underwood, Frank B. Kellogg, William E. Borah, Herbert C. Hoover...