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...these words there was the leadership of a field marshal who sits firmly down and waits for the four opposing armies to make some misstep against his impregnable position. In a sense the U. S. position is impregnable. "Our requirements," said Mr. Stimson, continuing his remarks, "are well understood. They have been cheerfully recognized by the nation which is our host and which has, through its Prime Minister, agreed with us that equality in naval power between us is a basis upon which we can best promote the beneficent purposes of this conference...
...January last week and Messrs. Hoover and Stimson were understood, respectively in Washington and London, to be sanguine that the conference may be crowned with success in May or June...
...first submitted to him as though he were royalty. He also said: "I sat right next to the wives of our delegation [at the opening of the conference]. . . . Mrs. Morrow was telling me what an awful fine son-in-law Lindbergh had turned out to be. . . . When Mr. Stimson said we will stay here till the world disarms, his wife says, 'My Lord...
Spoofy though all this sounded, it was fact: Clown Rogers had lunched and dined at the embassy, had sat with Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Stimson, is accorded large license everywhere at the conference. One Rogersgram announced that the conference had spent "one solid week of doing nothing but attempting to pronounce the Japanese delegate Wakatsuki's name. Next week the agenda calls for the pronunciation of the Frenchmen's names...
Poupette Gautier, chic unmarried personal secretary to Prime Minister André Tardieu, showed pique at the acclaim London papers continued to bestow on Statesman Stimson's "beauty chorus of typists." "Well, we French typists haven't any fur coats like the wonderful Americans," said Poupette, "but we came here to type reports and we shall type reports. One might think to read the papers that this was a style show...