The Hoover Week

"Let this day fill us with thanks and inspire us to go forward with the courage of hope."

So spoke President Hoover into a broadcasting microphone last week as the ratifications by Britain, Japan and the U. S. of the London Naval Treaty were being deposited at the British foreign office in a 22-minute ceremony. Other speakers on the hookup: Britain's Prime Minister MacDonald, Japan's Prime Minister Hamaguchi.

P: By appointment of the President, Major General Merritte Weber Ireland began his fourth four-year term of duty as Surgeon General of the Army.

P: "A benevolent despotism" was how Senator Hiram Bingham, returning with a congressional investigating committee from Samoa, last week described to President Hoover the Navy Department's rule over the islands (TIME, Oct. 6). Senator Bingham's commission will recommend a bill of rights, U. S. citizenship, less naval government for Samoans.

P: President Hoover last week picked a new director of White House entertainment to succeed Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to El Salvador. He was F. Lamont Belin, foreign service secretary. Director Belin, ranking as a minister, will begin his duties by arranging the President's dinner to his Cabinet early next month.

P: President Hoover read with satisfaction a report of his Attorney General clearing his Secretary of the Interior of charges of maladministering public shale oil lands in Colorado. The Attorney General could find "no merit or substance" to the accusations made by Ralph S. Kelley, resigned field chief of the general land office at Denver, in a series of 14 long, legalistic articles in the New York World (TIME, Oct. 13). Declared Field Chief Kelley: "A ridiculous whitewash!" Generally anticipated was a Senate investigation of the Kelley charges this winter.

P: To galvanize the 'Government's unemployment program President Hoover summoned Col. Arthur Woods from Manhattan, made him Director of Relief (see p. 18).

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