Herbert Hoover actually said...

“I do not think we need to hope for any immediate results.

The importance and the gravity of the occasion have been recognized in the dispatch to London of the leading men of every country.

It is the most important of international conferences of a great many years, and probably the most important for many years to come.

The people and the governments of the five nations assembling at this meeting are sincerely desirous that agreement shall be brought about b...