THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Nov. 3, 1930

"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.

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

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