Excerpt from Arms-and the Men: Intimate Personal Glimpses of Delegates, Attach s, and Attaches and Personages at the at Ton Conference on the of Armament and Pacific, and Far Eastern Problems The greatness of Harding is the greatness by which he chose a greater than himself to hold office under him. None denies the high mentality of Charles Evans Hughes. Harding least of all. Harding was big enough to give him the highest cabinet position. Harding welcomed the Conference in simple terms and then stepped aside. To Secretary Hughes was given the opportunity to win everlasting fame as the moulder of a great event. His first speech proved it, for while the President's speech faded away, the words of Hughes rolled thunderously around the world and awakened startled echoes in every capital. President Harding is the man who stood aside. In perfect loyalty and in complete confidence he has left his delegates to their task. There -is no critical atmosphere about the White House. Hughes, Lodge, Root, Underwood fear no complications because of wilful opinion from the executive. To them he has given the task; their results he accepts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.