Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover last week had need of all his good cheer to meet discouraging reports from London on the progress of the Naval Conference (see p. 21). While he was not ready to despair of some form of success from the parley, he was disappointed at the manner in which its negotiations seemed to be going around & around & around in a profitless circle. Chief Delegate Stimson continued to send him optimistic reports on the possibility of progress, but Stimson optimism did not seem to jibe with the pessimistic cablings of expert newsmen. Strong though the temptation...
When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sailed for London last January at the head of the U. S. delegation to the five-power naval conference, his optimism caused him to miscalculate two items: 1) the parley's long-windedness; 2) the high cost of official London life. In six weeks he and his six colleagues and their assistants had spent all of the $200,000 Congress had given them for their mission. Official explanation by Director of the Budget Roop: "Expenses have been greater than anticipated. Moreover an unforeseen delay [due to French troubles] has occurred...
Last week President Hoover sent to Congress a request for another $150,000 to keep the delegation solvent, if not active, at London. This sum he expected to last until mid-April, before which a termination of the parley is not looked...
...party where there were twelve women, every one of whom had been his mistress. . . . Nevertheless his wife . . . had great veneration for, him." The present Queen Empress is both a good woman and an indomitable influence for good. Last week the wives of the Delegates to the London Naval Parley twittered and chatted about her, then chatted and twittered all over again, comparing notes. For they had just had dishes of tea at the "home" of Her Majesty Queen Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Empress of India...
Although parity and naval stabilization are the first steps toward ending competitive feeling between nations, it is disappointing to find that Europe and the United States are not yet ready for a wholesale reduction of armaments. The observer who looks at the present London parley is forced to come to the conclusion that the pre-war mentality has not yet been discarded, with its jingoistic policy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Profit from industry gained on such basis is profit without honor in any country...