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Four days after the Hoover plan had gone forth, Secretary of State Stimson marched happily into the President's office to announce that Britain and Italy had unconditionally accepted his terms. Scot Ramsay MacDonald had made a great oration in Parliament [cheers] which had been echoed loudly by other orations from His Majesty's Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt...
Three hours later, Poet-Ambassador Claudel delivered the French reply at the State Department, and went scuttling out muttering: "I have nothing to say, nothing to say, nothing to say." The U. S. Ambassador in Paris had telephoned to prepare Secretary Stimson for the shock. But after he had scanned the English text, he grew alarmed, almost ran to the White House to confer with the President. They hastily summoned Ogden L. Mills, the financial brains of the Treasury, and for three and a half hours these three gentlemen solemnly pondered France's reply. Eugene Meyer Jr., astute, rich...
...well after 7 o'clock when Secretary Stimson emerged, the muscles of his nose tightened by worry. Newsmen trailed him out of the lobby and down the steps to the street between the White House and the State Department. No, no, no, nothing to say. He twirled his cane nervously. "Are you still optimistic?" asked a pert newshawk. The Secretary stopped, turned, answered: "Yes, I am. If anything happens to the President's plan, it would be a crime." Then he crossed the street, neatly dodging a delivery truck...
...Washington, Andrew Mellon's senior in rank, Henry Lewis Stimson, was so busy with despatches that he missed his train to New York; flew; sailed, as scheduled, for Italy aboard the S.S. Conte Grande. His trip was originally intended to be a vacation but President Hoover after re- ceiving the French reply, foresaw where his Secretary of State could be more useful abroad than in his high-ceiled Washington office.* On the Conte Grande a cabin near his B deck suite had been especially fitted out as an office for the Secretary of State who took with him Captain...
Morlock, a State Department code expert to handle the Stimson messages to the White House...