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Victory, Pen, Gardenia. Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Lewis Stimson, who fought and won a last-minute victory to keep the League of Nations from being mentioned in the Treaty (all the other delegations wished to mention it), said to correspondents after he had deposited his certified copy* in the S. S. Leviathan's safe: "I am not interested in warships any more. My chief trouble now is that I have left one of my suitcases in London...
After he signed the Kellogg Pact, a crashing French salute boomed for Mr. Stimson's predecessor as Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg; but last week the Leviathan cleared from Cherbourg amid silence, a reminder that although France and Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
...Washington Star to be president; the promotion of Associate Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only one): to the President of the U. S. and his wife...
Such speeches as were made by the delegates, he explained, were "their own interpretations" of the news facts. Mr. Stimson did not explain why U. S. delegates could not give "their own interpretations" to the newspapers...
Commenting further, said President Bickel: "'Naturally if the Press abdicates, radio will move in, and in this case apparently Stimson and Page as chief liaison men were importuned by the radio people to give them talks and the newspaper industry apparently simply sat idly by and let them get away with it. ... That was certainly a humiliating position for American newspapers regardless of how excellently it demonstrated the initiative and ability of the radio people...