Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the Senate bullpen President Hoover last week tossed the World Court.∙ Senators were astonished. The President asked for its consideration at this session "as soon as possible after the emergency relief and appropriation legislation has been disposed of." Then he invited in for luncheon Elder Statesman Elihu Root, who negotiated the formula for U. S. adherence to the Court, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, Mr. Root's legal disciple and political protege...
Under the Root formula the U. S. could "naturally" quit the Court whenever its objection to an advisory opinion was overruled. Explained President Hoover last week: "The provisions free us from any entanglements in the diplomacy of other nations. We cannot be summoned before this Court. We can seek its services by agreement with other nations. These protocols permit our withdrawal from the Court at any time without reproach or ill-will." The World Court protocols were not welcome in the Senate at this short and crowded session because the parliamentary situation there was already complicated enough without them...
...Court action by the U. S.: 1923, submitted to the Senate by President Harding; 1926, ratified (76-10-17) with five reservations; 1928, Reservation No. 5 rejected by other powers; President Coolidge said he would not ask the Senate to change its position but later approved Elder Statesman Elihu Root's going to Geneva as an unofficial negotiator; 1929, Root Formula framed, approved by World Court nations; U. S. signed revised protocols at Geneva; President Hoover rammed the protocols into a pigeonhole awaiting an auspicious moment to send them to the Senate for ratification...
...Received from President Hoover for ratification the World Court protocols embodying the Root formula...
...more humble," President Hoover was told at Quaker meeting by Miss Muriel Lester, London slum worker. ¶ With his special message on the World Court written and ready to send to the Senate, President Hoover was informed that at least 20 Senators would oppose ratification of the Root Formula so strenuously as to block any chance of action at this session. But the President was comforted to hear that a canvass of 2,036 U. S. newspapers revealed 1,357 in favor of the World Court. ¶ Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself...