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...force Revision, if not Cancellation. There were dark intimations that U. S. diplomats in Switzerland had been consulted, had even given informal assent to the debtors' doings. This the State Department sharply denied. Raw nerves were further soothed when, largely for domestic political consumption. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah as follows...
...Senate had just passed the Borah resolution to investigate the St. Lawrence treaty agreement. What did Governor Roosevelt think of that? Governor Roosevelt showed what he thought by waving his white duck hat and grinning...
Rebuffed by Borah, the convention next nominated for the Presidency redheaded, wrinkled-faced William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, spry cripple, onetime (1919-27) Representative from Georgia. Frank Stewart Regan of Illinois was given the Vice-Presidential nomination. An ardent prohibitor but also a humble man, Nominee Upshaw announced that he would retire if Senator Borah or some other "outstanding figure" would agree to head a third party Dry ticket...
...officially stated that ''the American Government is pleased," but Congressmen & Senators who spoke out on the Lausanne settlement last week mostly spoke against cancelling another cent of the nine billions which Europe owes the U. S. in War Debts. Such potent voices as those of Senator Borah (Rep.) and Senator Glass (Dem.) were not heard last week. The Senate tabled and ignored a resolution by Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore (Dem.) demanding whether "the European Powers which are indebted to the United States and which received, as a result of the War, an allotment of Germany...
...heard exactly the opposite from Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain who said "we have been in touch at Lausanne not only with European representatives but with representatives of the United States. . . .") Twenty-four hours after the Lausanne settlement and gentlemen's agreement had been published in full. Chairman Borah of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee said: "We have something yet to learn. I am going to wait a while to get the facts." The Senate's lone Farmer-Laborite Minnesota's Shipstead exploded: "If any official of the United States Government has led agents...