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...White House and the Senate continued to tussle last week over confidential papers relative to the negotiation of the London Naval Treaty. Secretary of State Stimson, on President Hoover's order, continued to withhold the documents from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the ground that their publication might embarrass foreign governments (TIME. June...
...Full & Free Access." Instructed by Secretary Stimson to judge the "Treaty from the language of the document itself and not from extraneous matter"; the Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted (10-to-7) a resolution asserting "its right to have full and free access" to all Treaty data. When Secretary Stimson was served with a copy of this resolution, he hurried to the White House, conferred long with President Hoover. "Impeachment." At the Capitol Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explaining the resolution to newsmen, admitted that the President could not be forced to give up the papers, declared...
...into every canvass. . . . This could have no other result than to breed unfounded suspicion and ill-will. It would not only tend to drag the Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which our Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator Borah in which he compared the Treaty to any legal contract and added: "I did not attempt to define the duties of the Senate or the scope of its powers in passing upon treaties...
...Silly and Worse." Senator Johnson, alert, tripped Secretary Stimson on one of the precedents he had quoted by showing that President Washington in 1796 withheld the Jay Treaty papers not from the Senate but from the House of Representatives. Declared Senator Johnson of Secretary Stimson: "It is silly and worse for an individual to contend that he can put into the public record a part of the correspondence bearing on the Treaty and then, holding up his hands in holy horror, pretend that the giving of all of it to his partner in treaty making would be incompatible with...
Goucher. Although it ranks 16th in enrolment among U. S. women's colleges, the distinction and importance of Goucher College at Baltimore are disproportionate to its registration (985). Fourteen months ago its president, William Westley Guth, died. Nine months later acting President Hans Froelicher died. Then Dean Dorothy Stimson, cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, became acting president (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Goucher acquired a full-fledged president, David Allan Robertson, A. B., longtime (1904-23) member of the University of Chicago's English faculty...