Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago U. S. Secretary of State Stimson addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, referring to his efforts in January 1932 to stop the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Said Statesman Stimson...
...British statesmen kept very silent, anxious not to endanger their friendly relations with Japan. So did the French. French citizens have money invested in the Chinese Eastern Railway, which they are anxious to sell to Japan. In the U. S. the complete text of the Stimson speech was cabled to Japan. Smiling little Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi was called home "on vacation," to give a report on public opinion in the U. S. On his way to Tokyo with his thin, attractive wife and son last week he stopped in San Francisco long enough to have a farewell party with every...
...blame for the apathetic Manchurian and Japanese policy which Chiang Kai-shek intends to pursue. Yakamashii. The Young Marshal's inherited province of Manchuria was definitely lost to him last week. At a dinner in New York for the Council on Foreign Relations U. S. Secretary of State Stimson had said...
...Conference, probably at London, to discuss international money and trade problems, which the U. S. would attend. U. S. opinion decided almost immediately that this later Conference would be a united attempt on the part of Europe to force revision or cancellation of War Debts. On May 31 Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. would attend no parley which discussed reparations, debts, or specific tariff rates. Last week British Charge d'Affaires Francis d'Arcy Godolperin Osborne carried to Secretary Stimson official invitations from Ramsay MacDonald as president of the Lausanne Conference and from Sir John Simon...
...President remained silent. At Washington, Secretary Stimson emphatically denied that U. S. representatives had taken any part whatever in the negotiations leading up to the "gentlemen's agreement." (The House of Commons presently heard exactly the opposite from Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain who said "we have been in touch at Lausanne not only with European representatives but with representatives of the United States. . . .") Twenty-four hours after the Lausanne settlement and gentlemen's agreement had been published in full. Chairman Borah of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee said: "We have something yet to learn...