Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate last week unexpectedly accepted President Hoover's proposal for it to sit through burning summer days in special session to consider the London Naval Treaty (TIME, May 26). Reasons: 1) Senators opposed to the treaty protested against the Administration's attempt to "railroad" the pact through to ratification at this session without "careful study." 2) House members, anxious to be off campaigning for reelection, have no say about the treaty but would have to sit and twiddle their legislative thumbs unless the present session of Congress is adjourned and a special for-Senators-only session called...
When Senator Hiram Johnson kept calling more and more naval officers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify against the London Treaty, President Hoover last week began to suspect a subtle filibuster was in progress to block ratification of the Pact at this session. The President has gained enough knowledge of practical politics to realize that delay feeds the fires of Opposition. Sternly he spoke out his displeasure...
...result of this threat, Chairman Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee prepared to close hearings this week, predicted the Pact's ratification within a fortnight...
...committee hearing neared its end, Senators hostile to the Treaty began to talk of changes and reservations based on the technical objections of Admirals Jones and Bristol. But even such threats of tangling the pact in new diplomatic coils did not down the widespread opinion that the Senate would ratify the agreement before it went home for the summer...
Plan Facts. "The nations of Europe today must unite in order to live and prosper." declares M. Briand's plan. This is his axiom, his slogan. He proposes "a moral union of Europe" based on "a Pact of General Order, however elementary...