Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such European parley the U. S. had officially joined in a dozen years, he was at its outset slightly apprehensive. But when after 72 hours the seven-power meeting adopted his ideas of relief and adjourned without any political eruptions, the President was a happy and relieved man. Secretaries Stimson and Mellon, as U. S. delegates in London, agreed to a 90-day renewal of the $100,000,000 international loan to Germany and to a proposition whereby bankers would refrain from withdrawing their $1,200,000,000 short-term commercial credits from the Reich. Though Wall Street scowled disapproval...
Washington broke a 12-year precedent by officially delegating Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Ambassador to France Edge to the conference. Ambassador Dawes was ordered to leave Evanston, Ill., get back on the job in London as soon as possible (see p. 9). The world press hailed this as the breakdown of U. S. Isolation...
Smiling hard, Chancellor Brüning had a private interview with Premier Laval. Henry Lewis Stimson had conversations with British Foreign Secretary Henderson and M. Laval, in the course of which he defined the difference between a Conversation and a Conference...
...Sunday devout Catholic Brüning attended mass at Notre Dame des Victoires, listened attentively to a sermon on the advantages of peace. Messrs. Stimson and Mellon left for London...
...same Palazzo Venezia where he and U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson talked peace (TIME, July 20), Benito Mussolini last week summoned the directors of the Fascist Party for a talk very warlike indeed. He was not now dealing with States powerful in arms or economics. The Papal State could only hurt him morally. He thought it had hurt him morally when Pope Pius XI smuggled his anti-Fascist encyclical up to Paris for promulgation (TIME, July 13), and therefore Il Duce and his party directors issued a sizzling hot rejoinder last week. Excerpts...