Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bolting the rest of his breakfast Secretary Stimson sped to the White House whither President Hoover hastily summoned his other bower, Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Out came the British note and for two hours the three hunched over the President's desk pondering what Britain's whole Cabinet had painstakingly written at Downing Street earlier in the week...
...opinion of every shade seemed undivided was this: that quite as connected de facto as Debts and Reparations are Debts and Disarmament. This connection Europe continued to deny. Last month after his White House conference with Governor Roosevelt, who rejected War Debt responsibility as "not his baby," President Hoover declared...
...allowance of $6 per day from his Government (and spending five times that much out of his own pocket), Mr. Davis was covering more ground more effectively than a full-fledged delegation of plenipotentiaries. A diplomat who had earned his spurs under Woodrow Wilson, he was picked by President Hoover as a U. S. delegate to the League of Nations' General Disarmament Conference which opened last February at Geneva. When talk was loud and hopes high, Delegate Davis was obscured by other U. S. representatives. But as the conference began to coast downhill into disagreement and failure, the others...
...permitted to express surprise that when President Hoover has assumed his real figure of an insatiable Shylock, his representative in Europe-for Norman Davis is playing the role of a super-Ambassado-is interfering between France and Germany and between France and Italy. . . . Europe's foreign politics seem to be to the United States a kind of hellbroth into which Mr. Hoover, like Macbeth's witches, keeps pouring new poison...
...Gentlemen's Agreement but with having, by his tact and patience, materially aided the conference's success. His repeated statement, repeatedly confirmed by the U. S. State Department, is: "I have no authority to discuss debts." But in present-day diplomacy, which Congress has told President Hoover he must continue to use on the Debts, lack of authority can be a great asset, a key to confidence. If a diplomat says Yes he means Maybe. If he says No he is no diplomat. A diplomat without authority can mean Yes without committing anyone to anything, No without offending...