Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen by the United States to confer with experts from other nations in preparation of a program for the World Economic Conference, J. H. Williams '18, professor of Economics, was in a preliminary meeting with Secretaries Stimson Mills, and Chapin, at Washington, yesterday afternoon...
Home in London, ailing Scot MacDonald went to work on a new note. Again diplomacy sped on greased skids. Ambassador Lindsay at Washington received the new note late at night, called Secretary Stimson for a midnight conference just as he was about to get into bed. The new note was simply a tactful revision of the old. In effect it said: "The U. S. is entitled to regard this Dec. 15 payment in any light it pleases; but we reserve the right to hope that the settlement question will be re-opened and that this payment may then be credited...
Following the White House conference and Cabinet meeting next morning, Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. and Great Britain now "understood each other," that the U. S. could accept payment...
...before you to ask you to honor the thing which is more sacred than anything else -the Signature of France. I personally refuse to dishonor it. ... We must avoid the isolation which surely would follow default." But the possibility of default loomed larger and larger. Premier Herriot, ignoring the Stimson "No" to Britain's first note, prepared a note nearly identical in import, confidently submitted it to the committees on Finance and Foreign Affairs. While they grappled the problems Premier Herriot returned to the Chamber floor in time to hear Louis Marin, aged Nationalist leader, flaying any proposal...
...last February at Geneva. When talk was loud and hopes high, Delegate Davis was obscured by other U. S. representatives. But as the conference began to coast downhill into disagreement and failure, the others tiptoed home one by one. The parley moved too slowly to hold Secretary of State Stimson's presence for more than a fortnight. Ambassador Gibson went back to Belgium, ceased, for reasons unknown, to be President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson to the Capitol, neither with new glory. That left Delegate...