Word: elders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Washington in his last, pastoral years at Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, founded a U. S. tradition: that public men, having held the highest offices, continued to serve afterward as Elder Statesmen. Presumably but some times not actually remote from politics, they were supposed to possess a degree and kind of wisdom not given to their partisan juniors...
...notable exception is Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State. Last week Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, 71, suddenly reappeared in the public eye in a way which clearly rated him the one real Elder Statesman now on the U. S. scene...
...resurrection, for he had not been buried. Thanks partly to his patron and law partner, the late Elder Statesman Root, Colonel Stimson had been in & out of appointive office (as Taft's Secretary of War, Coolidge's Governor General of the Philippines) long before he went in & out with Herbert Hoover. People born in the late 19th Century remember him as a baggy, slightly fuzzy graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School in the fuzzy role which Secretaries of State occupied during years when U. S. foreign policy consisted of having almost no policy. Secretary Stimson, rigid legalist...
...after the U. S. last declared war, Colonel Stimson had the honor of being called as witness No. 1 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sitting to consider extension, revision or junking of the present so-called Neutrality Act, important provisions of which expire May 1. To hear the Elder Statesman all but two of the 23 committeemen turned out.* Also present, though no committeeman, was North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, who took copious notes...
Revision was the treatment recommended by Elder Statesman Stimson. He urged the Senators to make the President identify "aggressors," then punish them by embargoes and other economic sanctions. British statesmen of today, well knowing their nation is not soon likely to seem "aggressive" in U. S. eyes, and with trouble much nearer home than Manchuria, rejoiced to read these consistent Stimsonisms, which were delivered with more force and sparkle than Colonel Stimson exhibited while in office...