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Loud were the wails of protest from statesmen and delegates. Secretary Stimson, whose delegation has already spent $350,000 at the conference, was particularly annoyed. Said...
Symptoms. Despite Secretary Stimson, the following symptoms of rigor mortis were evident last week...
Three-Power Treaty? There remained the cold-turkey possibility of a three-power treaty between Great Britain, Japan and the U. S. Legal experts were at work on rough drafts of this last week. The tenuous hope for a five-power treaty, to which Messrs. Stimson and MacDonald still clung, rested entirely on the ability of France and Italy to adjust their differences. Last week's efforts to achieve this produced nothing but a few bits of repartee. At a meeting of the naval experts, the French spokesman insisted that "all hulks capable of conversion into effective battlecraft, must...
...London on the progress of the Naval Conference (see p. 21). While he was not ready to despair of some form of success from the parley, he was disappointed at the manner in which its negotiations seemed to be going around & around & around in a profitless circle. Chief Delegate Stimson continued to send him optimistic reports on the possibility of progress, but Stimson optimism did not seem to jibe with the pessimistic cablings of expert newsmen. Strong though the temptation was for him to interfere with the U. S. delegation, to take what diplomats call "a strong public position," President...
...last chance of any effective agreement at the London Naval Conference as distinguished from face-saving formulas largely depends on the outcome of conversations at Chequers today between Prime Minister MacDonald, Prime Minister Tardieu and Secretary Stimson. If today's discussions promise no change in the French thesis there will be no hope of adjustment...