Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Full & Free Access." Instructed by Secretary Stimson to judge the "Treaty from the language of the document itself and not from extraneous matter"; the Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted (10-to-7) a resolution asserting "its right to have full and free access" to all Treaty data. When Secretary Stimson was served with a copy of this resolution, he hurried to the White House, conferred long with President Hoover. "Impeachment." At the Capitol Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explaining the resolution to newsmen, admitted that the President could not be forced to give up the papers, declared...
Point of Argument. A focus of Treaty argument more popular and pointed than the secret document argument between Senate and Administration continued last week to be the 18 big (10,000-ton) cruisers allowed the U. S. by the Treaty and Britain's insistence upon that limitation. The Navy's General Board, as a maximum concession, agreed last year to a reduction from 23, the number authorized by Congress, to 21 for the purposes of the London Conference. Admiral Pratt, when chosen to be chief U. S. naval adviser at London, protested against any cut of the General...
Exclaimed Senator Johnson: "The American people are entitled to all the information. ... To coerce action before Senators are fully informed, to compel consideration before every scrap of information and every pertinent document is before them should be resented by every individual Senator...
...question whether this Treaty is or is not in the interest of the United States and should or should not be ratified by the Senate must be determined from the language of the document itself and not from extraneous matter...
...reply, the irate Dean flayed the publication's "flagrant violation of a longestablished academic privilege-the inviolability of the classroom." Said he: "The document quoted is a condensation of a 25-page lecture and necessarily lacks the clarity of the lecture. . . . The words are true. ... I believe in all efforts directed toward perpetual peace, [but] I fear the efforts will all prove ineffectual...