Word: stimson
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British and U. S. efforts to aid Germany did not end with the end of the conference. Much-traveled Mr. Stimson was off again on an "unofficial" visit to Berlin. Scot MacDonald and British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson promised to follow him at the earliest opportunity...
...abrupt ending of the London debt conference gave Europe a chance to remember that Henry Lewis Stimson had originally gone to Europe to drum up enthusiasm for the League of Nations Disarmament Conference to be held in Geneva next February...
...answer to the League's request for information and suggestions to facilitate the approaching conference. Actually it was a statement and a warning to the rest of the world, setting forth very clearly France's position on disarmament. The French seemed to have Messrs. Hoover and Stimson much in mind. To make sure that there would be no misunderstanding of their position in English-speaking countries the English text of the memorandum was headed by a phrase seldom seen on League documents: "Translation supplied by the French Government." Bluntly, the position of France last week on disarmament...
...Stimson. All Germans eagerly awaited the coming of Henry Lewis Stimson, first U. S. Secretary of State to visit Berlin since the War. "Mr. Stimson," said a Berlin correspondent, "will find pan-Germania in pan-Chaos...
...that was what Statesman Stimson found he said nothing about it. He arrived at Berlin, called on Old Paul von Hindenburg, on Chancellor Brüning, on Foreign Minister Curtius, was solemnly taken to see the Greek sculpture in the Pergamon Museum and lunched on venison and Moselle in a public restaurant on the Wannsee (Tub Lake). Then he departed by Hook of Holland for London, passing en route Ramsay MacDonald and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on their way to go through much the same performance...