Word: states
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cover) One quiet day ten years ago United Pressman Lyle Wilson burst into the press office of the State Department with a little model airplane in his hand. The State Department's genial Press Division Chief Michael McDermott was talking with a few reporters. Wilson began sailing his plane around the room...
...kind to cub reporters but a bull dog to rowdy ones, "cut that out, or we'll throw you out." "I'll ask the boss about that," said Wilson in a mock huff, and walked down the hall to the office of the then Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (who had just been notified of his appointment as Minister to China). Two hours later someone put his head in the Assistant Secretary's door. Nelson Johnson and Lyle Wilson were tossing the airplane at each other, laughing like ten-year-olds...
...Wait and see; not abandon interests, but not provoke Japan in holding them; sit tight on the status quo. This policy, for many reasons, is the one which the U. S. is most apt to follow. It is what the indispensable, kindly, wise adviser of the State Department, Stanley K. Hornbeck, calls "a course of self-denial and restraint." It is certainly the course which Ambassador Johnson represents...
...called back to F. E. (as State Department officials call the Far Eastern Division). Here he learned for the first time what the State Department really is: not a policy-making machine, not a stable of thoroughbred cutaway-horses, not a mess of pigeonholes, but an extremely expert research body for the use of one man, the President. He found it full of extraordinarily well-informed men, was delighted to learn that State's Far Eastern representatives, both at home and in the field, are traditionally among the best. And he learned how heartbreakingly slow the action...
...Washington appointment was as Chief of F. E.-most important link in the chain of policy, the agent who boils down for President and Secretary of State the mass of reports from the field. Here Nelson Johnson was so useful that in 1927, at 40, he was made Assistant Secretary...