Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 4, 1932 out of the gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure...
...Stimson offered Britain U. S. collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort...
This information was the more interesting because last week Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman-after weeks of outcry by friends of peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought...
...Elihu Root Room, which will serve as an informal reading room, was given to the University through donations by Henry L. Stimson, the Law School Association, and the class...
...Henry L. Stimson, Elihu Root Jr., and Dean James M. Landis of the Law School paid tribute to the life and career of Elihu Root yesterday as they spoke at the dedication ceremonies of the new room in Langdell Hall which has been donated in memory of the great jurist and statesman...