Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation which sees eye-to-eye with the President in the matter of arms reduction is Italy, which likes to rattle the sword but really cannot afford the martial trappings of a Great Power. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy last week accepted the invitation of Secretary Stimson to go to the White House on Nov. 14 to discuss the world's economic plight. His visit will follow that of Premier Pierre Laval of France, who was to sail for the U. S. Oct. 16. Already on their way to the U. S. were Deputy-Governor Charles Farmer...
Nobody must suppose, correspondents were told by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, that President Hoover was taking sides when he sent the following cable last week...
Matter of fact, Statesman Stimson was so upset about China & Japan and whether they were resorting to war as an instrument of national policy or just fighting, that he did not go out to lunch. Beaming Negroes brought steaming trays. Without leaving his desk, the Secretary munched with his advisers, including U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes, in Washington on vacation. Alarmingly the New York Herald Tribune, chief Administration newsorgan, reported: "The situation in Manchuria holds the major attention of the State Department. . . . Open warfare between China and Japan would present a more delicate international problem for this...
...cannot give out what I have done or what we are now doing," said Statesman Stimson later, "but the State Department is working hard...
Famed as a man of peace because he forced Japanese ratification last year of the London Naval Treaty despite terrific opposition, Baron Shidehara kept the cables to Washington busy last week, finally obtained from Secretary Stimson what amounted to a carte blanche for the Japanese activities in Manchuria?activities which the Chinese Government denounced in their cables to Washington last week as "free acts of war . . . still being committed by Japanese troops...