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"Greatly pleased," full of approval, admiration and congratulations was President Hoover last week. The London Conference had resulted in a three-power naval limitation agreement between Britain, Japan and the U. S. . Many a U. S. citizen who had got the idea that the Administration expected a five-power treaty from the five-power parley was surprised to learn from the President's statement of results that he had all along held a five-power agreement "extremely improbable." Declared President Hoover of these results: "It is difficult to estimate the precise reductions in war craft tonnage which have been brought about. . . . The saving on the present basis [is] $1,000,000,000 in the next six years. . . .

"The whole agreement is a great step in world peace and an assurance of Ameri can parity in naval strength."

P: World peace was again President Hoover's text in a speech to the Daughters of the American Revolution, in which he again urged U. S. entry into the World Court under the Root formula. As if to offset the victory of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois earlier in the week as a World Court opponent, President Hoover declared: " I have no doubt that the U. S. will become a member of the Court. ... It is easy to preach ... peace. It is easier still to engage in invective or vindictive phrase or slogan which stir national selfishness and self-righteousness."

P: For the first time since he entered the White House, President Hoover last week was host to his brother, Theodore Jesse ("Ted") Hoover, and wife. Brother Ted, three years the President's senior, is Dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford University. There were other than fraternal reasons for his being in Washington. He wanted to attend the 50th anniversary meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His wife accompanied him to attend the congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at which she was an active candidate for vice president general.

Brother Ted & Mrs. Ted were quartered in the Lincoln bedroom on the second floor of the White House. Tight-lipped and camera-shy, he combats all publicity linking him with his brother. He even refused to be photographed with the President. His contention is that he is a "private citizen" deserving no public attention. Smaller than Brother Herbert, Brother Ted is short and stocky, with features and expressions about the eyes and mouth that resemble the President's. He, too, made money as a mining engineer, retired to Palo Alto to teach. Bronchitis kept him from the inaugural.

P: President & Mrs. Hoover last week became grandparents for the third time.

P: The first Herbert Hoover Gold Medal for "civic and humanitarian work" was last week presented to President Herbert Hoover, engineer, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Said President Hoover addressing his professional colleagues: "In solving problems of government we have need for a large leavening of the engineering knowledge and engineering attitude of mind. . . . They are unsolvable without the fundamental engineers' approach to truth."

P: To the White House last week went Vice President Curtis and several Republican Senators to warn President Hoover of the bitter contest brewing in the Senate over his nomination of Judge John Johnston Parker to the U. S. Supreme Court. Undaunted, the President emphasized his sturdy support of Judge Parker by issuing from the White House a lengthy memorandum prepared by Attorney General Mitchell defending Nominee Parker, explaining the legal necessities of disputed Parker decisions, calling objections " extraneous."

P: The American Booksellers Association last week made public the titles of 491 books it will later present to the White House as a 500-volume library (TIME, April 7). There are to be 162 works of fiction, 20 detective stories, 29 juveniles, in addition to the usual Biography, Drama, Travel, Poetry and History sections. The list ranges from Benvenuto Cellini's Auto biography to the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, from Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (banned in Boston) to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

The U. S. author with the largest number of titles on the list is a onetime White House occupant, Theodore Roosevelt. His four volumes: Autobiography, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Letters to his Children. Robert Louis Stevenson also is four times included. Mark Twain and Francis Parkman will have three volumes each on the White House shelves.

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