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...many comings and goings about the White House. Charles E. Hughes dropped in for luncheon. His beard looked familiar. Elihu Root came for luncheon the day after. His statesmanlike features were just as familiar there a few years ago. Secretary Kellogg lunched there the same day. Next day Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Moses and Senator Lenroot came to call. Newspaper men came and went in small flocks. It was plain that something was brewing, and that it was not beef...
...been strongly urging another disarmament conference. Naturally the President would have made haste to accept the present invitation if it had not been that this invitation was issued by the League of Nations. To many members of Congress the name of the League of Nations is still anathema?to Borah, to Hiram W. Johnson, to Moses?but in general the "irreconcilables" none the less favor disarmament...
...income from this property. When the peace treaty with Germany was made, it was formally agreed that Germany should reimburse her citizens for the seized property, and that the U. S. should hold the property to satisfy the claims of individual U. S. citizens against Germany. Recently Senator Borah and others have proposed to return the seized property to the German owners, contending that it is unethical to seize the property of foreign individuals...
...vote on the four specific proposals resulted as follows: the Harding-Coolidge-Hughes plan received 39,327 votes, the "Harmony Plan" received 21,385 votes, the "Borah terms" received 7,884 votes, and 12,412 votes were cast against the Court in any form...
...addition vote which was cast simply "for" or "against" resulted in 33,687 for the Court and 6,582 opposed. Hence the final results show the overwhelming majority of 93,799 in favor of the Court in terms probably acceptable to the Administration against 7,884 votes for the "Borah Plan," and 18,940 against the Court absolutely...