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There, his most serious guest was Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, come to report that in spite of all his efforts, the Geneva Arms Conference had adjourned to October. Its 14-year record of accomplishment still o, many pronounced the Conference a dead fish. But President Roosevelt, bland, told a Campobello crowd: “I am glad to have Norman Davis here with me. He can go back to Geneva and say he saw with his own eyes what a boundary without fortifications means.” That same day his Secretary of the Navy promised to build a U. S. navy “second toNONE”(see col. 3). A destroyer whizzed the President to the U. S. S. Indianapolis, waiting in U. S. waters off Eastport. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished, a salute gun barked 21 times and the seagoing President went rolling into the unknown as far as the nation was concerned for three days. No newshawks were aboard to report the hourly doings of Mr. Roosevelt, nor of his familiar Louis McHenry Howe, nor of Henry Morgenthau of the Farm Credit Administration, nor of Franklin Jr. and a lucky Groton friend. Not even the Navy Department knew the position of the Indianapolis from day to day. The cruiser ploughed swiftly toward Annapolis, drawing to a close the 15-day Presidential vacation which had provided little real respite from public affairs. By means of the Indianapolis’ high powered wireless, he was even now less than a minute from London. When he steamed up Chesapeake Bay other work & other worry hurried to meet him. To talk Recovery a Cabinet party consisting of Attorney General Cummings,Secretaries Swanson, Ickes, Dern and Roper was waiting to be taken aboard the cruiser, whose isolation the President liked so well that he elected to remain aboard 36 more hours before going to the White House. While his skeleton Cabinet of landlubbers prepared to brave seasickness on the Chesapeake’s choppy waters in order to keep their appointment, the President fired a bombshell over the warship’s wireless at the London Conference. The bomb—enunciation of a brand new reason for his refusal to stabilize currencies—exploded; seemed about to collapse the Conference instantly; and utterly astounded not only his Secretary of State Hull and the delegates of 65 nations but also his chief Braintruster, Raymond Moley (see p. 15). ¶ But on the great subject of Russia, at least, Raymond Moley knew exactly what his President wanted him to do. In London he marched to Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov, got a $4,000,000 U. S.-Soviet cotton deal (see p. 19). Recognition loomed. ¶ At San Juan, President Roosevelt’s Governor General Robert Hayes Gore, father of nine, created a commotion by suggesting to Puerto Ricans that, as their New Deal, landed estates might be split up, rented to small farmers (see p. 14). ¶ To Havana, where U. S. Ambassador Welles was trying—despite continued dou-ble-crossing—to arbitrate bloody differences between Cuba’s political ins and outs, the President sent President Gerardo Machado a pleasant but barb-pointed cable: “Restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba’s economic recovery.” ¶ The President was happy to receive a report that his Civilian Conservation Corps had been completely enrolled (274,-375 ),was now working in the woods, had already sent home more than $6,000,000 to its jobless relations. ¶ Waiting at the White House was a huge patronage roll prepared by Postmaster Farley for the President’s approval. July 15 was to be the day when the Democracy got its hands on its first batch of Federal small jobs. ¶ By means of a highly complicated schedule, the President had managed to see most of his brood during his vacation cruise. One whom he did not see, and of whom he had not seen much since the inauguration, was Son-in-law Curtis B. Dall. Broker Dall did not even appear at the White House during the prolonged stay of Mrs. Dall (”America’s Sweet-heart”) and their children “Sistie” & “Buzzie.” Last week Curtis Dall and John J. Edgerton dissolved their two-month-old Wall Street brokerage house. 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