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...Yardstick Across Knee. To appreciate the French note one must recall that when President Hoover's disarmament plan was first broached its two chief points were: 1) reduction, not mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...
...upon Article VIII of the covenant [of the League of Nations] that the French Government intend to base reductions of their armaments. It is, indeed, upon this basis alone?a basis which does not imply a prior application of mathematical ratios [the "Hoover yardstick''] . . . that it would be possible, in their opinion, to work out an agreement...
Such words are nothing short of first, reproaching the President with abandoning his major premise, reduction of armaments, then breaking the "Hoover yardstick" across one's knee, and finally waving the red rag of the League of Nations at a Republican to see if he will charge...
...laymen a gridiron evening constitutes a stiff examination in political current events. For professional politicians it is a trying game like "Truth." Last week President Hoover good naturedly watched his "Commission-a-Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could...
...Dale applied the yardstick. The wife of Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, she writes articles for magazines, recently published a book on Modigliani...