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Since Statesman Stimson, Signer Grandi and German Chancellor Heinrich Briining were already in Geneva the world Press treated its readers to such headlines as SURPRISE 5-POWER PARLEY.* What did it all mean? In Geneva one of the first things reported by correspondents was the behavior of Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson (the former Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn.) as she was escorted into the Geneva Disarmament Conference Building by Mr. MacDonald...
...this week for Geneva where he will spend a fortnight at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Statesman Stimson hoped the sea trip would help him recover from an attack of influenza. Twice last week President Hoover conferred with Norman Hezekiah Davis, a U. S. delegate at the Geneva parley...
...dropped his bill in January because of the Geneva Conference and the low state of Treasury finances. Fortnight ago, however, he took the House floor to announce a change of mind, to point a warning finger at the "crisis" in the Far East, to predict failure for the Geneva parley, to argue that naval shipbuilding during Depression would save the U. S. money, help relieve unemployment...
President Hoover went boldly forward last week with his plans for U. S. participation in the League of Nations' general disarmament conference at Geneva Feb. 2. He refused to let world rumors to the effect that the meeting was predestined to failure daunt his hopes. Diplomatic talk of the parley's postponement, in view of general economic conditions and the forthcoming Hague Conference on War Debts & Reparations (see p. 13), was given a frigid reception at the Department of State. Congress was asked to appropriate $450,000 expense money. Even a ship ?S. S. President Harding?and a sailing...
Charges made against the President: 1) he held up naval building before the London Conference, "a gesture not commensurately copied by other prospective participants" in the parley; 2) he "admittedly" reached agreements with Prime Minister MacDonald on the Rapidan "that have never officially been divulged in their entirety"; 3) his delegates at London "yielded to the British what President Coolidge had refused to yield to them at Geneva in 1927" (i. e. big cruisers for small ones); 4) he refused to let the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in executive session see the full record of his negotiations on the London...