Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson's note, pondered its powerful conclusion...
Unfriendly Act? As was later admitted to Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes were bombing Chinese villages. He meant well, meant to stop any possibility of slaughter. But to Comrade Litvinov, who knew from his direct wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion...
Lack of official relations forced Comrade Litvinov to send his reply through the same slow grapevine via which he received the U. S. note, namely the French Embassy at Moscow. Correspondents cabled it direct, caused Statesman Stimson's acute embarrassment, placed him in a position where he found it necessary to break a state department rule and comment on a communication from a foreign power before he actually received...
...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...
...genuine desire for peace [on the part of Mr. Stimson] might have prompted him [to act] much earlier, even the first week after the Chinese broke the letter and the spirit of the Kellogg Pact by violent and unauthorized seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and arbitrary measures against Soviet citizens" (TIME, July...