Word: parley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Witnessed an appalling sight as extreme Left-wing Laborites revolted from their party and voted with the Conservative Opposition for the first time in history, thus nearly toppling down the Labor Cabinet on the eve of the Hoover-MacDonald Naval Parley...
Unfriendly Act? As was later admitted to Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes were bombing Chinese villages. He meant well, meant to stop any possibility of slaughter. But to Comrade Litvinov, who knew from his direct wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion...
...case of hurt pride when he induced Rear-Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, to accompany the U. S. delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling he should go to the London parley in the same capacity or at least authorized to veto any agreement which he felt did not protect the U. S. Navy. He did not accept his "advisory" role until he heard that his chief, Secretary Adams, was to be a delegate...
...conclusion- in print-that he was to be the new Assistant Secretary of State, vice Minister Johnson. Wrong though their conclusion was, it served to bring a White House statement: President Hoover had appointed Mr. Page to the U. S. advisory delegation attending the five-power naval parley in London in January. He would serve as personal aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born at Aberdeen, N. C., 46 years ago and brought up in the manner of a Southern gentleman, Advisor Page is, true to family tradition, a Democrat, though he voted for Herbert Hoover...
...latest quirk in the problem cropped up last week in Paris when French Senator Henry de Mery arose to comment on the proposed. duPont-financed seadromes of Inventor Edward R. Armstrong (TIME. Oct. 28). Senator de Mery urged the French delegation to the London parley to bring up this matter in connection with U. S. naval strength, warning that otherwise "just outside our territorial waters we will someday likely see islands appear flying the Star-Spangled Banner...