SECRET DISARMAMENT PROPOSAL DISARMING TO SENATORS
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On June 22, 1921, developments in the United States Senate indicate that there is "no patience whatever with (President Warren G. Harding's) idea of working out a disarmament agreement in secret in advance of the calling of a disarmament conference."
According to Carter Field, one unnamed senator said...
"That path led to the World War."
Senator Atlee Pomerene* (D-Ohio) expressed the view that Japan and England would welcome a presidential invitation to hold a disarmament conference.
*Atlee Pomerene was born in Berlin, Ohio & educated at Princeton University & the University of Cincinnati School of Law. AP served in the US Senate 1911-1923 & was special prosecutor in the Teapot Dome scandal.
SOURCE
"Harding Plan to Cut Arms Is Opposed," by Carter Field, The New York Tribune, June 23, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
