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...utterly impossible for them constructively to give us what we fundamentally need in any other way, but it is possible for Borah and others in the strategic position in the Senate to obstruct and thwart this most fundamental project. There is genuine danger that they will do so unless the practically unanimous approval of the United States becomes sufficiently vocal. I believe the students of our universities, many of whom are already voters and the rest of whom will soon become so, can assert a tremendous influence with the Senate especially by writing personal letters to their own Senators...
...lecture tour. He asked the Secretary of State on what grounds Countess Karolyi was refused a visa. Mr. Kellogg replied that the State Department had confidential information and refused to disclose it. Mr. Strassburger had little faith in the State Department's confidential information. He went to Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with his troubles. Mr. Borah evidently was sympathetic with him. Mr. Borah has all along objected to the law and the discretion exercised under it by the State Department. Then Mr. Strassburger went to Secretary Mellon, another person active in Republican politics...
...aboli and maidenhair fern decorated the table in the great dining room of the White House when President Coolidge with 44 guests sat down to meat. The gathering included the French delegation to the Debt Conference (see CABINET), the entire Cabinet (except Messrs. Work and Weeks) ; Senators Smoot, Borah, Swanson; Ambassadors Herrick and Daeschner...
...transmit to senator Borah in behalf of the French ex-combatants this history of the War of Independence, together with this medal awarded to one of our comrades for saving the life of one of your officers at the front. He has no further use for it. He restores it to Senator Borah, to whom we owe so many dollars...
...Senator Borah realize that the day may come when the price of the gold he wishes to accumulate will not be worth the price of the blood we shed...