Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current League of Nations resolution censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition of Manchukuo comes as a relief to all who questioned the results of the Hoover-Stimson declaration. The rapid decision of our state department to refuse recognition to a state created in violation of the Kellogg pact will, apparently, be vindicated by the League...
Fortunately, the League assembly shows every indication of echoing the note of non-recognition independently sounded by Mr. Hoover and Mr. Stimson. That this will remove us from an embarrassing and anomalous situation is in no real sense creditable to our foreign policy. The significant feature of the entire proceeding is the proof we have given of international bad manners which, without the League support, might have had serious consequences...
...same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with the U. S. as a result of the Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition of Manchukuo. In Tokyo there was no popular doubt that the massing of U. S. warships in the Pacific was a naval gesture against Japan. But diplomacy still kept a smiling front. Last month when the question of the U. S. maneuvers was raised in the Japanese...
...Stimson et aL Efforts by neutral statesmen of all sorts to end the Leticia trouble have been ceaseless since it began. Diplomatic notes have piled up in bales at Lima and Bogota. Last week U. S. Secretary of State Stimson rapped Peru over the knuckles with a 2,600-word note, sternly pointing out that even Peru admits the validity of the Saloman-Lozano Treaty and that should Peru use force to hold Leticia she would clearly violate her pledge under the Briand-Kellogg Pact...
...Lima, Peru's Cabinet, after sweating over the Stimson & League notes, justified themselves as follows: "The Peruvian Government is not defending the territory of Leticia but its fellow countrymen who occupy it with a view of securing its return to its former nationality, which is not a crime justifying the use of measures of extermination...