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When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sailed for London last January at the head of the U. S. delegation to the five-power naval conference, his optimism caused him to miscalculate two items: 1) the parley's long-windedness; 2) the high cost of official London life. In six weeks he and his six colleagues and their assistants had spent all of the $200,000 Congress had given them for their mission. Official explanation by Director of the Budget Roop: "Expenses have been greater than anticipated. Moreover an unforeseen delay [due to French troubles] has occurred...
Petition, Tragedy, Advice. Moved by a petition in which 1,200 U.S. citizens, many of them clerics, urged him not to abandon the goal of reducing armaments, chief U.S. delegate Henry Lewis Stimson announced that a minimum 200,000 ton reduction of the U.S. fleet, and an even larger reduction of the British fleet is possible insofar as these nations by themselves are concerned, but basically the announcement was a left-handed reminder that everything depended on the attitude of "other powers...
...major shock of the week for U.S. Delegate Stimson was the death of his personal secretary, Mrs. Pearl Demaret. Mrs. Stimson had just sent a goodbye bouquet to Mrs. Demaret who was about to sail for the U.S. because homesick for her husband and child. After arranging Mrs. Stimson's box of flowers on the window sill, Mrs. Demaret quite accidentally fell out of her Mayfair Hotel window...
...under . Edward VII. Point One: the Queen bade to tea only the wives of such members of the Delegation and Diplomatic Corps as had themselves been received by George V at levee. Point Two: the Queen, while graciousness itself to everyone, did not precisely enthuse Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson (two of whose ancestors were May-flowerites) by chatting longest with another U. S. guest. Point Three: after the ladies had had their tea Queen Mary said a few last gracious words, then surprised her guests by walking straight at a wall consisting of a huge mirror in front of which...
London, Eng., March 9--In reply to the many petitions that have reached him from the United States, including several from Harvard University, Secretary of State Stimson recently issued a statement which reads as follows: "There seems to be an impression that the work of the American delegation at this conference is likely to result in an increase instead of a reduction in the tonnage of the navies of the world...