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...Chief French Delegate, André Tardieu, was in Paris, hastily summoned by the French Cabinet crisis. The Chief German Delegate, Heinrich Brüning, was in Berlin; and the Chief U. S. Delegate, Henry Lewis Stimson, was in Washington. The acting Chief U. S. Delegate, Hugh Simons Gibson, was not only in bed with a bad cold three days of last week in Geneva but apparently communicated this affliction to Captain Kent Churchill Melhorn, U. S. N., the U. S. Delegation's staff physician. Several other U. S. delegates were in bed with colds and Swiss doctors were hastily...
Five million American women, members of eleven organizations represented in Geneva by the National Committee on the Cause & Cure of War, unqualifiedly endorsed every one of U. S. Chief Delegate Gibson's nine points last week and predicted that every one will be adopted. Other women backed other statesmen and their points...
...night the U. S. delegation's office was entered, Delegate Gibson's desk was ransacked and Senator Swanson's locked briefcase was slit open, nothing taken. This secret the U. S. delegation kept until, on a subsequent night last week, the breaking and entering was repeated (again no takings). Peace Man Gibson reported to the police...
...Example: Honest Hugh Gibson, the close friend of Honest Herbert Hoover said, "Not a single American nation possesses an army which brings fear to its neighbors." Yet both Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson know that fear of the armed might of the U. S. is a note shrieked every day of the year by some Latin-American paper and they know that the armies of Bolivia and Paraguay have been sniping at each other for so long that both populations are in a state of never-ending fear of each other's armies...
...Gibson's sentence was a particularly sincere effort to explain to the Conference why the U. S. does not propose to reduce the U. S. Army by a single man?the reason being that President Hoover honestly considers the U. S. Army a purely defensive and minimum force no matter how many Mexicans were defensively shot by Honest General Pershing & Army...