Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese shot & shell dropping into Shanghai have done more during the last month than spread death & destruction among luckless Chinese. They have also dropped into the lawyer-like mind of Secretary of State Stimson a mass of new and anxious thoughts on the peace of the Pacific. Last week Statesman Stimson was ready to take out these thoughts and put them down on paper. There was a sharp buzz of diplomatic excitement when Washington heard he was writing "something." Some correspondents predicted it would be a "stiff note" to Japan, protesting her aggression in China. Others forecast an "important statement...
...Power Treaty . . . against military aggrandizement at the expense of China. One cannot discuss the possibility of modifying or abrogating the provisions of the Nine-Power Treaty without considering at the same time the other promises upon which they were really de-pendent." In these carefully guarded words lay Secretary Stimson's most potent threat against Japan and its Shanghai gesture. In non-diplomatic language what Mr. Stimson was really saying was this: Japan has violated the Nine-Power Treaty; if that pact is scrapped, the U. S. would be justified in scrapping the capital ship treaty, fortifying Guam...
...sail for the Pacific and join the American vessels already there. The entire American navy will stortly be conducting operations within a short distance of the Sino-Japanese imbroglio. Such a situation is almost bound to be interpreted as a practical sequel to the policy outlined in Secretary Stimson's note of Feb. 24 to Senator Horah...
...display of force. Whether by design or coincidence, the administration is likely to cause another violent nationalistic reaction in Japan. Memory is all too clear about the effect on Japanese public opinion of the League's "firm stand" in November, and the anger caused by garbled accounts of Secretary Stimson's remarks on the last Manchurian offensive...
...John Simon, was in London, hastily summoned by the Japanese crisis; and the Chief French Delegate, André Tardieu, was in Paris, hastily summoned by the French Cabinet crisis. The Chief German Delegate, Heinrich Brüning, was in Berlin; and the Chief U. S. Delegate, Henry Lewis Stimson, was in Washington. The acting Chief U. S. Delegate, Hugh Simons Gibson, was not only in bed with a bad cold three days of last week in Geneva but apparently communicated this affliction to Captain Kent Churchill Melhorn, U. S. N., the U. S. Delegation's staff physician. Several other...