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...Announcement of the Anglo-French accord to stand shoulder-to-shoulder against the U. S. on War Debt payments stirred the Senate to noisy apprehension. As an outgrowth of the Lausanne agreement on Reparations, troubled legislators viewed it as a European united front to force Revision, if not Cancellation. There were dark intimations that U. S. diplomats in Switzerland had been consulted, had even given informal assent to the debtors' doings. This the State Department sharply denied. Raw nerves were further soothed when, largely for domestic political consumption. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah as follows...
...There is no truth in any statement that the Anglo-French declaration [Accord de Confiance] is applicable to the question of British debts to the U. S. The use in the declaration of the words 'European regime' expressly excludes from its purview any questions affecting the non-European countries...
Berlin's Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung took a similar view, denounced Anglo-French secret diplomacy and asked, "What is the use to us of the true blue eyes of English statesmen and their protestations? In the end England and France have always got together and we were the dupes...
...their attempt to gain independence from Soviet Russia. His son, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, was Peggy-Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner's second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. He was an active lay-leader in the Anglo-Catholic group of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He survived his wife by one day. Died. Paris Eugene Singer, 66, famed sportsman and Florida realtor (Palm Beach Everglades Club); of heart disease; in London. Intimate friend of Dancer Isadora Duncan (he was the "Lohengrin" of her autobiography), he and Otto Hermann Kahn...
...Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington (see p. 15). Died. Rev. Dr. Caleb Rochfort Stetson. 61, twelfth rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific...