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...Conference, probably at London, to discuss international money and trade problems, which the U. S. would attend. U. S. opinion decided almost immediately that this later Conference would be a united attempt on the part of Europe to force revision or cancellation of War Debts. On May 31 Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. would attend no parley which discussed reparations, debts, or specific tariff rates. Last week British Charge d'Affaires Francis d'Arcy Godolperin Osborne carried to Secretary Stimson official invitations from Ramsay MacDonald as president of the Lausanne Conference and from Sir John Simon...
...President remained silent. At Washington, Secretary Stimson emphatically denied that U. S. representatives had taken any part whatever in the negotiations leading up to the "gentlemen's agreement." (The House of Commons presently heard exactly the opposite from Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain who said "we have been in touch at Lausanne not only with European representatives but with representatives of the United States. . . .") Twenty-four hours after the Lausanne settlement and gentlemen's agreement had been published in full. Chairman Borah of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee said: "We have something yet to learn...
...Democrats and their pre-convention squabbles in Chicago. Before 9 a. m. a hurried call for news correspondents went out from the White House. At that early hour only a dozen second-string newshawks were rounded up.* They found the President standing behind his office desk, Secretary of State Stimson at his elbow. In a low, clipped voice the President began to read from a paper in his hand. The newsmen flipped out pencils and pads to jot down his words. He stopped reading to order: "Put away the pads. The proposal has been typed out for you." The "proposal...
Next day his corps of agents?Secretaries Mills, Stimson, Hyde, Postmaster General Brown, Detective Secretary Richey and Political Secretary Newton? began returning from Chicago to tell him how well his wishes had been executed, receive his thanks. "A prompt and effective job," said the President. When the Vice President arrived at the White House, the President led him out to the posing ground for the first pictures of the renewed Hoover-Curtis ticket...
...members of the President's Cabinet were going as delegates to speed his renomination. Secretaries of State Stimson and of the Treasury Mills could be spotted under the New York placard. Secretary of War Hurley, aggressive and smiling, would be with his fellow Oklahomans. The Missouri contingent would contain Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the Virginia delegation Secretary of Labor Doak. But of all the Senators, Congressmen and Cabinet members present none would compare in influence and importance to Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, President Hoover's pre-convention manager and his personal representative at Chicago...