Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These naval activities, of course, in no wise reduced the determination of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates to the London Naval Conference to talk Japan's delegates out of 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...
...Britain; 2) a flexible interchange of auxiliary tonnage between categories; 3) retention of their full submarine strength of 71 ships (78,497 tons). Like good diplomats, they were ready to give in on demands No. 1 and 2 but on demand No. 3 all the persuasiveness of Statesman Stimson could not bridge them to compromise. Vainly Mr. Stimson tried to show them that submarines were useless against battleships, that they served only as weapons of uncivilized warfare against unarmed merchantmen. Possibly the Japanese interpreter failed to translate the full vigor of the Secretary's arguments; perhaps the Japanese delegates...
...list. . . The public would be vastly reassured if the Secretary of the Navy should take part in conferences which may shape the future of the Navy. There is full confidence in Charles Francis Adams. . . . He is possessed of more knowledge regarding the Navy than any other delegate. When Mr. Stimson and Mr. Morrow enter into an exchange of naval views with such an expert as Admiral Takarabe it is not to be expected that the Americans could hold their...
Wrathful indeed was Statesman Stimson at the Post. Turning to the resounding publicity board of his own department, he issued a formal statement in which he explained that Secretary Adams' absence was due to a courteous limitation of the size of the Woodley meeting, that Secretary Adams had voluntarily abstained from that meeting, and had actually suggested its participants. Continued Statesman Stimson...
...Japanese delegates journeyed to New York, there embarking on the Olympic for London, the Post blatted back at Statesman Stimson that it was "sorry if its high praise of Secretary Adams had caused acute pain and humiliation to the Secretary of State...