Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I haven't seen any reference to any address made by Wickham Steed, an Englishman, so I don't know what he may have said or may not have said."

"That means two countries have indicated that they might agree to something, if others would agree, but it is apparent that other countries do not agree to it, and so there hasn't been much of any prog..."

"I do not understand that either Italy or Japan agreed to it."

"I think it is fair to say that so far as we have been advised concerning the agreement made between France and England it didn't seem to advance the probability of further agreements about naval armam..."