Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only six Cabinet members-Messrs Stimson, Mitchell, Brown, Adams, Wilbur and Hyde-had sat in their White House seats all through President Hoover's four years...
Meanwhile the League's invitation reached the U. S. State Department in time to interrupt a friendly conference between outgoing Statesman Stimson and incoming Statesman Hull. Because the League asked a reply as soon as possible, the State Department obliged promptly with something which "did not sound as if it had been written by Mr. Stimson" according to officials of Japan's Foreign Office next day. Possibly written in part by Mr. Hull (though signed by Mr. Stimson) the State Department's cautious reply expressed "substantial accord" with the League's version of facts in Manchuria...
...there are larger issues at stake than an alarm with such dubious premises. The cooperation of the Soviet Government in the Pacific Basin is becoming imperative if the Stimson doctrine on Manchuria is to be given substance. To the preservation of the territorial integrity of China we are unequivocally committed. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated that he will support the Stimson position upon his accession to power. And yet any attempt along these lines can scarcely ignore the greatest power in the Near East, the Union whose strength in the Basin outweighs that of any other nation. Mr. Fish's fear...
Secretary of State Stimson, in love with Washington, will keep his beautiful estate "Woodley," resume his New York law practice...
...observance of the "sanctity of treaties," preparatory to stickling later for German respect of the treaty-created Polish Corridor, etc. Britain was said to have taken her new line because: 1) President-elect Roosevelt was reported by Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay to be resolved to continue the so-called "Stimson Doctrine" of nonrecognition of Manchukuo; and 2) Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, was said to have cabled warnings that if the League fails to deal with Japan, China may declare in desperation a boycott so sweeping as to choke off not only Japanese but also other foreign exports...