Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very first business lunch at the Stimson mú see last week came Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, who makes no bones about the fact that he is Chief British Delegate...
What Chance Success? On his way to Geneva, Mr. Stimson had conferred in Paris with Premier Andre Tardieu. Because France goes to the polls next month and the U. S. election looms, these two statesmen found it best to make no statement of what they told each other to their publics...
...Geneva the Disarmament Conference remained deadlocked upon Premier Tardieu's plan to equip the League of Nations with an international police force- a plan anathema to President Hoover, as everyone knows. Therefore knowing Swiss pulled long faces, called Delegate Stimson "the American Undertaker come to bury the Disarmament Conference." But Chief U.S. Delegate Hugh Gibson had presented to the Conference last week a spirited rehash of the "real disarmament" which President Hoover would like to see achieved...
...Washington, cables stating that Delegate Stimson has carried to Geneva a plan for "hemispheric disarmament" caused Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle to raise his eyebrows slightly and observe, "I do not recognize that phrase...
Wrote Secretary of State Stimson to Richard Louis Sprague, U. S. Consul at Gibraltar: "Hearty felicitations on the occasion of the completion of 100 years' service of the Sprague family as American Consul at Gibraltar. . . . There is no other such record. . . ." Other Gibraltar Spragues: Horatio, Boston shipping merchant, who served 16 years; Horatio Jones, 53 years. The present Sprague has been Consul since...