Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson was in London for last July's economic conference, Herr Dr. Julius Curtius, Germany's Foreign Minister, whispered news into his ear: Frau Barbara von Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...
...Dear Uncle Stimson...
...awfully glad the boat is big enough for me, little man, to sit and sail in it. I like to fancy myself crossing the ocean in it under the stars & stripes. . . . Meanwhile, I remain, dear Uncle Stimson, most gratefully yours...
...sharply restricted. A third was that the islands should be put under the coastwise shipping law which would have prohibited all but U. S. vessels from plying between the Philippines and the U. S. All these ideas President Hoover stoutly resisted and on one occasion Secretary of State Stimson, as the islands' onetime Governor General, marched to the Capitol and told Congress to stop plaguing the Philippines. In Manila last week Secretary Hurley recalled these Ad ministration efforts to protect the Philip pine market, declared: ''We've been some what confused amid these victories...
Abroad Secretary Stimson had a double mission: 1) to meet Europe's statesmen and learn their problems firsthand; 2) to sound them out on arms limitation at the Geneva conference next February. That he had participated in the London Conference was almost accidental. As he sailed for home, he figuratively lifted his hat to Europe in a statement of farewell...