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President-elect Olaya called formally on President Hoover for 15 minutes. President Hoover called formally on President-elect Olaya for 13 minutes. He was No. 1 guest at a State dinner at the White House, at another at Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson. He got a presidential salute at Annapolis, laid a wreath on the Washington tomb at Mt. Vernon, wreathed the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington National Cemetery. He was ceremoniously lunched at the Pan-American Union...
Time Killing. Unable to kill the Treaty, "Captain" Johnson killed time instead by a great hue and cry for all the confidential papers leading up to and through the London parley. He was indignant when Secretary of State Stimson sent him only paraphrases of these papers...
...Extraneous Matter." What Senator Johnson wanted to know was why the U. S. delegation had receded in its big-cruiser demand from 23 to 18 vessels. Chairman Borah asked Secretary Stimson for more private data. Secretary Stimson returned a "confidential memorandum which will answer as far as possible" Senator Johnson's questions, and a refusal in these words...
Statesman Stimson realized as well as anyone that by withholding information relative to the Treaty's inception he was playing directly into the hands of "Captain" Johnson. To fortify his position in advance he issued a supplementary statement from the State Department in which, besides quoting many a precedent for refusing the Senate diplomatic material, he said...
...After taking the technical testimony, the Foreign Relations Committee concluded its public hearings and made ready to study larger, more intangible diplomatic factors involved, beginning with the confidential exchanges between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald which last year laid the ground work for the London parley. Secretary of State Stimson, when the committee requisitioned this secret correspondence, was alarmed lest its contents leak out to the public through the garrulity of some anti-treaty Senator...