HOOVER AND SENATE
REQUEST fr)R DOCUMENTS
BRIEF. POINTED REPLY
Cnited Press, Association—By Electric Telt-
graph—Copyright. (Received 12th July, 11 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, 11th July.
President Hoover on Friday rejected the Senate's request for secret documents relative to the London Naval Treaty. In. a brief, pointed message he said that the negotiations had involved statements to him in confidence. He could not allow himself to become guilty of a breach of trust. No Senator had been refused an opportunity to see the confidential material referred to, provided only he would agree to receive and hold the same in confidence in which it had been received and held by the Executive.
The refusal prompted Senator Norris (^Republican), of Nebraska, to offer the first reservation to the Pact and led to a vigorous attack upon the Execu tive message by Senator Johnson (Eepublican), of California.
The message reached the Senate in the midst of a denunciation of the Treaty by Senator Hale, of Maine.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 9
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