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...Conference was found by President Hoover last week in his temporary offices in the State, War & Navy building. Acting Secretary of State Cotton was just down the corridor and around the corner. The President's door was open to him at any hour with despatches from Chief Delegate Stimson at St. James's palace. Downstairs in the cable room were expert telegraphers. Code clerks filled the code room from which all snoopers were shooed away. Tall, curly-haired Pierre De Lagorde Boal of Boalsburg, Pa., chief of the department's conference secretariat, sat in his office like...
...complicated machinery for quick diplomatic communication was tuned up for the conference rush of business. Only lacking was the rush of business. The President could ask Statesman Stimson a question in London and get an answer in ten minutes, if necessary. But last week it was not necessary. President Hoover had few questions to ask because Statesman Stimson was doing little. And that was just what President Hoover wanted Statesman Stimson to do at first...
...example, at the first plenary session of the conference, held at St. James's palace in the drawing-room of one of the most negative British sovereigns who ever reigned, Queen Anne, the address of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson was kept in the spirit of his opening sentence...
...Negative Stimson. An engineer knows that the negative pole of a storage battery is exactly as useful as the positive. Growing satisfaction was evident at the White House as, day after day, the chief of the U. S. delegation in London did nothing un-negative...
Statesman Stimson seemed relieved by this turn of affairs; but meanwhile in Washington, President Herbert Hoover let the White House correspondents announce that he stood ready to go as far as Ramsay MacDonald or anyone else, that the U. S. would gladly join the Great Powers in any armament slash, however deep. This same position has been taken by Dictator Benito Mussolini for many years. Despite his saber-rattling, the representative of Italy has declared, time after time, that she would join the rest of the world in reducing armaments: "To any common minimum, even the lowest...