Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved the promotion of Secretary of State Stimson to the rank of brigadier general in the Army reserve...
...hands of Sir John Allsebrook Simon last week than in those of any other man. At Geneva the British Foreign Secretary suavely brought the League Assembly around to a certain way of looking at the Sino-Japanese situation. This viewpoint approximated that of President Hoover and Secretary Stimson. Meanwhile at Shanghai, where the Japanese victory had become embarrassingly pyrrhic (see p. 16), worried Japanese generals, admirals and diplomats flocked around the British Minister, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, who was, of course, under orders from his chief, Sir John Simon...
Secretary Stimson's statement, he says, seems to mean that if the present trouble should end by an agreement whereby China should cede to Japan any rights in Manchuria, the United States, Russia or any other signatory would have a right under the Pact to disregard them, if in its opinion they were acquired by other than pacific means. If this means that a signatory may intervene when the cession is made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress...
...diplomacy involved and its pessimistic prophesy for the future degeneration of the League are careful and thorough, the article's greatest importance lies in a penetrating criticism of the legal aspects of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and a presagement of international instability as a consequence of Secretary Stimson's January 7 letter, advocating the annulment of all treaties exacted by force...
...attempted to look beyond immediate effects and to discover, if possible, its ultimate significance. With a well buttressed premise that the Kellogg-Briand Pact is not, strictly speaking, a treaty and that it authorizes no enforcement against refractory signatories, the article moves on to predict portentous effects of the Stimson letter upon international relations in the future. Instead of encouraging an immediate forceful alteration of unsatisfactory treaties, such a policy would lead to lengthy controversies about rights, protracted friction between disputing powers, and possible hostilities. Furthermore, universally accepted it would provide a highly undesirable loophole of indefinite claims through which...