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...footnote, col. 2, p. 11, your issue of July 6, wherein you state that radio time was secured (but not used) over two big broadcasting chains for an explanation of the moratorium by Secretary of State Stimson...
Having decided not to drop the old lady in midstream but to trudge on to shore, President Hoover had more trans-atlantic telephoning to do. Statesman Stimson had arrived in Paris from Italy. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was still resting at Cap Ferrat, after his arduous nocturnal negotiations on the debt holiday. After three long calls to Paris, President Hoover announced...
Secretary Stimson will attend the conference in London to consider the present emergency problems in Central Europe. I have asked Secretary Mellon, if consistent with his plans, also to attend in order that we may have the benefit of his advice. It is our understanding that the conference is limited entirely to questions of the present emergency...
Secretary Mellon was walking in his daughter's rose garden when Secretary Stimson telephoned him from Paris, gave him his President's message. The old gentleman was surprised. He said to newsmen as he started wearily for Paris: "I didn't think I'd be needed while Mr. Stimson was there." Undersecretary Mills, in Washington, was sorry and worried. "If this thing goes on," he said, "they'll be bringing him home...
...Determined to use all his official personnel to push his plan through quickly, the President had at first suggested that Statesman Stimson broadcast a radio explanation of the moratorium to the country. Statesman Stimson hustled back to his own office, called in aides with facts and figures, wrote out a speech while radio time was secured over two big broadcasting chains Next day, though, President Hoover read in the public prints that France's contrariness was increasing, decided that a Stimson speech might complicate future negotiations. When the Secretary returned with a draft of his address for White House...