Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the Conference one contretemps occurred which provoked the President and started talk of a Cabinet resignation. Fortnight ago President Hoover despatched to Secretary Stimson, then in Paris, an outline of what might be done for Germany. When the delegates met in London, the State Department in Washington released the text of the President's instructions to Delegate Stimson, declared it had been formally presented to the Conference. Acting Secretary of State Castle asserted that President Hoover was the sole author of this "American proposal." A muddle developed when Delegate Stimson denied that he had received any "new Hoover...
...crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves of the U. S. delegates were frazzled. For two days wires sputtered with details of a ruckus between shock-headed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and his assistant in Washington, William R. Castle...
...Hoover Plan." Suddenly from the Washington office of Assistant Secretary of State Castle came the full text of a message the President had sent to Statesman Stimson in Paris the week before, and news of a grand "Hoover Plan" which Mr. Stimson was supposed to have presented at the conference. Reporters rushed to Stimson...
Bathtub Situation. "The situation we are faced with," continued Statesman Stimson, "is something like a bathtub. The stopper has been out and the water has been running out rapidly. It is necessary first to put the plug back in the hole. Then it is necessary to examine what water is left and to see if it is sufficient for the purposes at hand. If it is, well and good; if it is not it may be necessary to put more water...
Nobody tried to make the French do anything else. Next day the Hoover-Stimson-MacDonald Plan was adopted in a communiqué signed by Scot MacDonald. It had four features...