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...such European parley the U. S. had officially joined in a dozen years, he was at its outset slightly apprehensive. But when after 72 hours the seven-power meeting adopted his ideas of relief and adjourned without any political eruptions, the President was a happy and relieved man. Secretaries Stimson and Mellon, as U. S. delegates in London, agreed to a 90-day renewal of the $100,000,000 international loan to Germany and to a proposition whereby bankers would refrain from withdrawing their $1,200,000,000 short-term commercial credits from the Reich. Though Wall Street scowled disapproval...
...During the Conference one contretemps occurred which provoked the President and started talk of a Cabinet resignation. Fortnight ago President Hoover despatched to Secretary Stimson, then in Paris, an outline of what might be done for Germany. When the delegates met in London, the State Department in Washington released the text of the President's instructions to Delegate Stimson, declared it had been formally presented to the Conference. Acting Secretary of State Castle asserted that President Hoover was the sole author of this "American proposal." A muddle developed when Delegate Stimson denied that he had received any "new Hoover...
...crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves of the U. S. delegates were frazzled. For two days wires sputtered with details of a ruckus between shock-headed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and his assistant in Washington, William R. Castle...
...Sunday devout Catholic Brüning attended mass at Notre Dame des Victoires, listened attentively to a sermon on the advantages of peace. Messrs. Stimson and Mellon left for London...
...same Palazzo Venezia where he and U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson talked peace (TIME, July 20), Benito Mussolini last week summoned the directors of the Fascist Party for a talk very warlike indeed. He was not now dealing with States powerful in arms or economics. The Papal State could only hurt him morally. He thought it had hurt him morally when Pope Pius XI smuggled his anti-Fascist encyclical up to Paris for promulgation (TIME, July 13), and therefore Il Duce and his party directors issued a sizzling hot rejoinder last week. Excerpts...