Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their demands for large submarine tonnage. With nice new bags and trunks ceremoniously packed by his wife who remained behind in Tokyo, onetime Japanese Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki had brought his delegation to Washington for a brief diplomatic visit on the way to London. To his suburban home, Woodley, Statesman Stimson invited Delegates Wakatsuki and Takarabe, there with U. S. Delegate Morrow, discussed naval matters with them for 150 minutes. Not to embarrass the Japanese with a preponderance of U. S. delegates, Secretary of the Navy Adams did not attend...
...Washington last week arrived nine very polite little Japanese gentlemen. Delegates to the London naval parley, they had stopped off on their way there to discuss with President Hoover, Statesman Stimson and William Richards Castle, the President's new ambassador to their country (see col. 3) Japan's devices, desires and designs at the coming conference. President Hoover honored them with a White House dinner, hoped to reach a preliminary agreement with them on the naval problems ahead...
...George Washington. Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, U. S. fiscal autocrat, compelled Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and the six other U. S. delegates to travel on the same ship to the London naval parley next month or pay their own expenses on another ship. Statesman Stimson had wanted to travel on the fast S. S. Bremen. The Comptroller's authority: The Merchant Marine Act of 1928 which specifies that U. S. officials must travel on U. S. ships "whenever available." To make her "available" the George Washington will be held over two days...
...careless and walked too much after my first operation," confessed the grizzled statesman the other day like a penitent schoolboy, 'but the second fixed me up. It was a complete success, complete' The doctors have cured everything. I am quite well again. ... I have been invited to Brazil as the guest of the Government and also to Argentina. I plan to go. After that, if the voyage is not too tiring, I should like to visit the United States...
...Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received...