irst |
|to emerge were Secretaries McAdoo and Redfield, who |
|brushed through the crowd of newspaper |
|representatives. They referred all inquiries to the |
|President. Secretary of War Garrison came out alone.|
|He refused to say a word regarding the note. There |
|was an interval of nearly ten minutes. Then |
|Secretaries Daniels and Wilson came out. Behind them|
|was Attorney General Gregory, and, bringing up the |
|rear, was Secretary Bryan. Bryan's face was still |
|set. His turned-down collar was damp and his face |
|was beaded with perspiration. |
| |
|"Was the note to Germany completed?" he was asked. |
| |
|"I cannot discuss what transpired at the cabinet |
|meeting," was his sharp reply. |
| |
|"Can you clear up the mystery and tell us when the |
|note will go forward to Berlin?" persisted |
|inquirers. |
| |
|"That I would not care to discuss," said the |
|Secretary, as he joined Secretary Lane. "I am not in|
|a position to make any announcement of any sort now.|
|I will tell you when the note actually has started."|
| |
|Ordinarily, Secretary Bryan goes from a cabinet |
|meeting to his office, drinks a bottle of milk and |
|eats a sandwich. To-day he entered Secretary Lane's |
|carriage and, with Lane and Secretary Daniels, |
|proceeded to the University Club for luncheon. |
| |
|It is understood that Secretary Bryan took to the |
|cabinet meeting a memorandum in which he justified |
|his views that the proposed note is not of a |
|character that the United States should send to |
|Germany. He took the position that the United |
|States, in executing arbitration treaties with most |
|of the countries of the world, took a direct |
|position against war. As he put it, on great |
|questions of national honor, the sort that make for |
|welfare, arbitration is the