Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enrique Olaya journeyed to the U. S. with all the usual trappings of a good-will visitor. In New York he was welcomed by Mayor Walker. A special train carried him to Washington where President Hoover gave a White House dinner in his honor (TIME, June 16, 1930). Secretary Stimson also gave him a big dinner at which Dr. Olaya met Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. They talked socially about Colombia's financial plight. Though Mr. Mellon later denied it. President-elect Olaya was sure he heard the Treasury Secretary mention Colombia...
...final $4,000.000 in Colombia's bank credit was unaccountably held up in New York. President Olaya complained to Secretary Stimson who went in person to see the attorney of National City Co. in New York. The hankers were not urged not to be "unduly technical." Mr. Schoepperle insisted that the Colombian budget had not been balanced as agreed and as for the Barco con cession, he did not "give a damn." On June 20, 1931 the Barco concession was restored to Gulf Oil Corp., to the large satisfaction of the State Department. On June 30 Mr. Schoepperle released...
...Statesman Stimson, as it appeared circumstantially, played the Barco con cession against the $4,000,000 loan and thus secured a triumph of dollar diplomacy? No, was his indignant answer. The two matters, while parallel, were separate and distinct. The State Department insisted that its sole concern in these negotiations was "the fostering of friendly relations...
Arriving earlier in the week from London, Ambassador Dawes was bedded at the White House. As chairman of the U. S. delegation to the Geneva Arms Conference next month, he went immediately into conference with President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and other conference delegates on the problems ahead. Statesman Stimson appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to ask for $450.000 expense money for the delegates, intimated that the U. S. would not take forceful leadership at Geneva, declared the U. S. delegation was composed of "the most practical pacifists to be found...
...looking General Gregory Semenov, who led a White Army against the 'Soviet in 1917, was conferring with five Mongol Princes about a plan for promoting the independence of Inner Mongolia. Because it failed to win the support of France, Great Britain or Italy, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson's strongly worded note citing the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty (protecting China's independence) left Japanese army headquarters completely unimpressed. U. S. correspondents in Mukden discovered that the Japanese soldiers who punched the face of U. S. Consul Culver Chamberlain were suffering no more...