New Britain herald., 1930-01-07
HOOVER HAS LAST
 NAVAL DISCUSSION
Meets Delegation at Farewell Breakfast in White House

Washington, Jan. ' LP-Conscious
 Of inevitable difficulties, but coun
 selling confidence and patient effort,
 President Hoover said goodbye and
 good luck today to the delegates
 who will speak for him at the Lon-
 don naval conference.
 Five of the seven members of the
 delegation, and a group of their
 ranking technical advisers, were in
 Nited to a breakfast conference at
 the White House. On the presiden-
 ttal calendar the event was chased
 as social and informal, but it pro- Nided opportunity for a parting word
 of advice about the momentous dis
 cussions which are to begin two weeks from today in the British capital.
 It now is apparent these discus sions may embrace a consideration of further limiting aircraft carriers "a class of ship which has received little attention heretofore in the conference preliminaries. The air craft carrier provides a floating base for naval airplanes, and already is under certain limitations as a result of the Washington treaty. If further limitation is proposed at London. the United States will be prepared 10 discuss it.
 Some All Ready
 Some of the presidents breakfast guests went to the executive man. sion this morning with their affairs in Washington finally wound up for an indefinite stay abroad. Secretary Stlmson of the state department, head of the delegation, had closed his desk and arranged to leave dur ing the day for short visit to his home on Long Island Most of the official party, however, is to depart on Thursday morning on a special i train timed to make quick conncc- 1 lions that afternoon with the steam CT George Washington at her pier 1 at Hoboken.
 Besides Mr. Simson, the delegates l invited to the breakfast included i Secretary Adams of the navy de- i partmcnt: Dwight Morrow, now am- l baasador to Mexico and soon to be- come q senator from New Jersey; and Senators Reed Of Pennsvlvania ! and Robinson Of Arkansas. The oth- | CT two members of the delegation. | Ambassador Charles G. Dawes and . Hugh Gibson. already are abroad.
 The president also included in his invitation the naval officers and |, s+-.,, to go to London to provide tochni- cal advice, and two men who will shoulder temporarily the duties Of membership in the cabinet while their chiefs are awav-Under Secre- tary Cotton of the state department and Assistant Secretary Jahncke of the navy. In all, IS places were laid at the big table in the state dining room.
 Actual Talk Confidential
 MT. Hoover's words of counsel to his chosen representatives were, of course, kept under the seal of off cial confidence. Unquestionably, however, the delegation not only will leave Washington with certain broad lines of policy well defined, but with a knowledge of the presi- dents views on some of the most difficult problems of the conference.
 Long before he entered the White House, Mir. Hoover had applied the trained mind Of an engineer to cer- tain features of the complex prob lem of naval construction. In 1921, he was a member of the commission created by President Harding to ad- wise the American delegation to the conference. He has ex- amined diligently the technical charts for the present dclcg ation by the naval experts. Mathematically- minded both by natural talent and long training, he has been found by his confcrees 10 be well supplied with detailed statistics respecting the na- sies of the world.
 Through the months when the London conference has been in the making, he has given intensive study likewise, to the practical application of all of this technical information r the field of international politics. Notably, in his conversations last Tall with the British prime minister, Ramsay Macdonald. he sought to go behind the technicalitics and analyze he remOter causes which stimulate he building of battleships. In a gen. aral sense his conclusions have been stated in public utterances asking sor an end to naval competition. In 'ar greater detail he has given to he American delegates his own con- ,eption of how this may be accom- olished at London.
 Responsibility His
 Under the constitution, the president is charged with conduct ng the foreign relations of the na- ion, While he has expressed every confidence in the men he is sending o London, they go as his represen- atives and MT. Hoover is conscious hat whether success or failure is in tore. the ultimate responsibility will be his.
 When he took leave of the dele ,ates today, in no sense did he take cave of the negotiations, He intends o continue to give the problems of he conference a generous part of lis daily thought. Before the end is cached, many messages will have assed across the Atlantic, and many decisions bearing on the course of vents in London will have been made here in the White House.
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