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Background Study. After taking the technical testimony, the Foreign Relations Committee concluded its public hearings and made ready to study larger, more intangible diplomatic factors involved, beginning with the confidential exchanges between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald which last year laid the ground work for the London parley. Secretary of State Stimson, when the committee requisitioned this secret correspondence, was alarmed lest its contents leak out to the public through the garrulity of some anti-treaty Senator...
...Wartime submarine, lying out of commission in the Navy's Philadelphia "boneyard." Last week the Navy announced that Wilkins could have the boat, but that he must make haste for it must be destroyed before July 1, 1936, under the terms of the London Naval Parley...
...week began a study of the provisions and implications of the London Naval Treaty. The document was officially before the Foreign Relations Committee where a friendly attitude toward it was manifested by members, including Pennsylvania's Senator Reed and Arkansas' Senator Robinson, both delegates to the London parley. The Naval Affairs Committee, under the nervous leadership of Maine's Senator Hale, conducted hearings in an atmosphere hostile to the agreement which was, under the Senate rules, none of its official business. Senator Hale, a big Navy man, did everything possible to develop the worst features...
...admiration and congratulations was President Hoover last week. The London Conference had resulted in a three-power naval limitation agreement between Britain, Japan and the U. S. . Many a U. S. citizen who had got the idea that the Administration expected a five-power treaty from the five-power parley was surprised to learn from the President's statement of results that he had all along held a five-power agreement "extremely improbable." Declared President Hoover of these results: "It is difficult to estimate the precise reductions in war craft tonnage which have been brought about. . . . The saving...
...Packard Jr. '20. Additional trials for the purpose of selecting five other entrants will be held today in Holden Chapel at one o'clock, at which time competitors will be required to deliver a five minute talk on the subject 'Resolved. That France's stand in the '930 Naval Parley was justified...