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Home in London, ailing Scot MacDonald went to work on a new note. Again diplomacy sped on greased skids. Ambassador Lindsay at Washington received the new note late at night, called Secretary Stimson for a midnight conference just as he was about to get into bed. The new note was simply a tactful revision of the old. In effect it said: "The U. S. is entitled to regard this Dec. 15 payment in any light it pleases; but we reserve the right to hope that the settlement question will be re-opened and that this payment may then be credited...
...legislative detail to the President's desk. His State-of-the-Union message had to be whipped into final form for the printer. He paraded billion-dollar columns into regimental front for the 1934 budget (see p. 11). Between times he held a series of conferences with Secretaries Stimson and Mills on British and French War debt notes (see p. 8). Suddenly changing his plans, President Hoover decided to send Congress a special message this week on Debts, Disarmament and the World Economic Conference, Senators and Representatives, many of them "lame ducks," kept interrupting by popping...
...morning last week before most Washingtonians had finished breakfast, towering Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S., marched briskly up the front steps of "Woodley," suburban home of Secretary of State Stimson. He was promptly ushered into the study. After brief greetings Sir Ronald handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts- a note, he estimated, "about as long as the Pickwick Papers." In triple-spaced typewriting it covered 26 foolscaps, on the first of which was embossed...
Bolting the rest of his breakfast Secretary Stimson sped to the White House whither President Hoover hastily summoned his other bower, Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Out came the British note and for two hours the three hunched over the President's desk pondering what Britain's whole Cabinet had painstakingly written at Downing Street earlier in the week...
...last February at Geneva. When talk was loud and hopes high, Delegate Davis was obscured by other U. S. representatives. But as the conference began to coast downhill into disagreement and failure, the others tiptoed home one by one. The parley moved too slowly to hold Secretary of State Stimson's presence for more than a fortnight. Ambassador Gibson went back to Belgium, ceased, for reasons unknown, to be President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson to the Capitol, neither with new glory. That left Delegate...