Abstract

Mr. Shearer Likes a Big Navy

Executive after executive took the witness stand and solemnly told the committee that although they had hired William B. Shearer to do propaganda and lobbying work for them in Washington in 1926 and 1928, before and after the Geneva naval conference, they had employed him at a very considerable increase in pay to attend that international gathering solely for the purpose of observing and reporting. They declared that although Shearer was thus dispatched to set up an innocent observatory they had, they confessed, been totally indifferent to his numerous reports and letters, and the few communications from Shearer that had more or less accidentally come to their attention they had viewed with contempt and disgust and had hardly read.