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Stimson and Knox. In New Haven one night last week Henry Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft. Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover, laid down a line for U. S. foreign policy and defense: military conscription, shipments of planes and munitions to Great Britain, the use of the U. S. Navy to convoy shipments if necessary. It was an effective speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Two Appointments | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Pacific Policy. All that U. S. diplomacy could do in the Pacific was to wage a rearguard action. Originator of that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance to the Atlantic? | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

West's Norton. Wyoming's Congressman from Saddlestring, Frank Ogilvie Horton is a Hoover man from way back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. P. IN PHILADELPHIA | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Alfred E. Smith and Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet. Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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