Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Stimson will attend the conference in London to consider the present emergency problems in Central Europe. I have asked Secretary Mellon, if consistent with his plans, also to attend in order that we may have the benefit of his advice. It is our understanding that the conference is limited entirely to questions of the present emergency...
Secretary Mellon was walking in his daughter's rose garden when Secretary Stimson telephoned him from Paris, gave him his President's message. The old gentleman was surprised. He said to newsmen as he started wearily for Paris: "I didn't think I'd be needed while Mr. Stimson was there." Undersecretary Mills, in Washington, was sorry and worried. "If this thing goes on," he said, "they'll be bringing him home...
...Washington, newsmen clamored for more detailed information from the White House as to what U. S. participation in the London conference meant. Acting Secretary Castle explained as well as he could. Of course there would be no "foreign entanglements," but the discussion would be very broad. Would Secretaries Stimson & Mellon be limited to economic topics? No, they were free to talk world politics. Their rôle would be that of mediators and harmonizers trying to work out a ''reasonable plan" whereby Germany could receive a loan and thus help bring the Hoover debt holiday to fruition. Over...
Once in, President Hoover gave himself up wholly to the London conference. He sent word to Ambassador Dawes, vacationing in Evanston, Ill., to get back to London immediately. By telephone Secretary Stimson reported two or three times a day to the White House on the preliminary negotiations in Paris between the French and German ministers. When he detailed a French plan whereby, to get a loan, Germany must declare a political truce for ten years against the Versailles Treaty and the status quo of Europe guaranteed by the other powers, President Hoover looked glum, said something about such an idea...
President Hoover stayed on an extra night at his camp when his telephone line was cut in on a call from Paris to the State Department and he heard Secretary Stimson report: "The atmosphere here is good. There is nothing at the moment to be pessimistic about. The meeting of the French Premier and German Chancellor was perfectly pleasant and agreeable...