Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presently Mr. Hoover shook the hand of British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, poet and Principal Private Secretary to James Ramsay MacDonald (and to Prime Minister Baldwin before him). Poet-Secretary Vansittart had just come to pay respects, anticipating his chief's proposed visit next month...
...most foreign-policied President since Woodrow Wilson is Herbert Hoover. In six months in office he has stirred up a new naval disarmament todo, and last week he opened up another question, discarded not so long ago: U. S. adherence to the World Court...
Last spring Elihu Root, grey Elder Statesman of U. S. diplomacy, good friend of Herbert Hoover, went to Geneva?quite unofficially?and began with foreign diplomats to draw up another set of reservations which would suit both them and the U.S. Last week more than 40 nations had approved the Root formula (see p. 26). So Henry Lewis Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, announced that he had "carefully examined" the new reservations and "satisfied" himself that they would protect...
...press refused to take the Secretary of State's first-personal pronouns seriously. It headlined "Hoover Advocates U. S. Court Entry," "Hoover Takes World Court Plan of Root." Seasoned Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert took occasion to remark: "Mr. Hoover is not the kind of executive who turns over problems of his administration to subordinates." If these disrespectful remarks "got the Sec retary's goat"* he made no sign, allowed his announcement to pass as a declaration that one of Herbert Hoover's policies would be to put the U. S. into the World Court...
Five-Power Disarmament. Referring to progress made in his naval disarmament pourparlers with President Hoover via Ambassador Dawes the Prime Minister raised an international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling...