Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of State Stimson, modest as a jack of diamonds traveling incognito, insisted that in clasping Sir Eric Drummond's hand he did not do it as Secretary of State. He had not even come to Geneva as Chief of the U. S. Delegation to the Disarmament Conference, he said, but as a simple U. S. delegate...
...taking [Chief Delegate] Hugh Gibson's place!" cried Delegate Stimson when further pressed upon this nice point. "I am just going to help when...
Polite Sir Eric then said that he had not shaken the Stimson hand in his role as Secretary General of the League of Nations but in his other role as Secretary General of the Conference. In the strictest legal sense the clasping last week was therefore a case of two other statesmen...
...Hire a Palace." Carrying to its refined conclusion the technique of putting over important business deals at lunch, Statesman Stimson always hires at every big conference which he attends the most palatial estate which can possibly be hired, preferably a mansion some miles out of town like his own "Woodley" in Washington. Last week, having taken Mrs. Stimson to Europe on the svelte, palatial Ile de France, and brought her to Paris on a private railway car, he set her up three miles from Geneva as the Chatelaine of the Chateau de Bessinge...
Inside the Chateau de Bessinge self-styled "Delegate" Stimson made himself at home in Louis XVI salons set out with slightly rusty suits of armor suggesting a museum. All the Louis XVI furniture, according to a spokesman for the Swiss real estate agent who leased the Chateau de Bessinge is upholstered in genuine Gobelin tapestry...