Word: note
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...have any, their humor. But when Senator Caraway received in his mail the Herald Tribune's editorials clipped out by a Dr. J. Clarence Sharp of Manhattan who said he thought the Herald Tribune had "great courage," something happened to Senator Caraway. He instantly wrote Dr. Sharp a note of which the following was the main paragraph...
...nickname of "L'Americain" (TIME, Nov. 11). M. Tardieu knows that at least 99 million out of 119 million U. S. citizens are imperfect in their French, and that the State Department at moments of stress is capable of considerably toning down its summary of an unwelcome diplomatic note...
Therefore the note which France sent in duplicate to all the naval parley Powers last week was handed out in an official English translation to U. S. correspondents at Paris, was handed out to Washington newsmen next day by the French embassy, but was not delivered to the State Department until four days afterwards...
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...
...French note asserts that to arrive at "naval agreement presupposes an understanding on the question of freedom of the seas" and says...