Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussing the attitude of the United States toward any agreements arising out of the Far Eastern conflict, President Lowell declares in the leading article of the current number of Foreign Affairs that the interpretation placed upon the Pact of Paris by Secretary Stimson's note of January 7 to Japan, "If generally accepted, might make the relation of states more uncertain, more full of danger than if the Pact has been unsigned...
...tenth State to ratify the Federal Constitution.† Last week it was the first State to ratify what is likely to become the 20th Amendment to that Constitution. Prodded into speedy action by Senator Carter Glass, it did not wait to be notified officially by Secretary of State Stimson that Congress had put this newest Amendment up to the States. Last week Mr. Stimson was still waiting for the Government Printing Office to turn out 48 copies of the Amendment to be signed, sealed, red-taped and distributed among the States...
Vhen Japan and China a few days later agreed "in principle" to withdraw their forces around Shanghai (see p. 21), Secretary Stimson's friends and admirers were confident that his letter had played a potent part in lifting the war clouds, opening the way to peace...
...Senate Committee on Naval Affairs unanimously approved legislation to build the fighting fleet up to full treaty strength. Japan's warlike activities in the Far East were a large psychological factor in propelling the bill out to the Senate. An anxious state of mind was reflected in Secretary Stimson's hint that Japanese hostilities in China might justify a general abrogation of the Washington and London treaties limiting Naval Armament...
...Versailles (which France does not want discussed). The Russian Government was on the qui vive (see p. 20). Thus Japan was not under pressure from any "united front'' presented by the Great Powers last week. Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo from Washington that President Hoover and Secretary Stimson had "split" on the Sino-Japanese issue, the President wanting to do nothing and the Secretary of State wanting to write a stern note to Japan. Tokyo, hearing this, accepted the Stimson-to-Borah letter as "proof" that Mr. Hoover had not let Mr. Stimson write to Japan...