Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, however, it is generally assumed that the President will go holidaying somewhere, sometime. On the strength of this assumption his Cabinet members have been busily planning how and when to get out of Washington. First to announce his vacation plans last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Late this month he will sail for two months in Europe, visiting Italy, France, Germany and Britain. In August he will go to Scotland to shoot some grouse. The fact that he will meet Europeans en route and discuss current diplomatic questions with them exalted his trip in press speculation...
When charges of ''Slavery in Liberia" broke (TIME, Jan. 19), Mr. Barclay was Secretary of State, answered Statesman Stimson's urgent inquiries with tact. Presently the then President of Liberia, Mr. D. B. King, resigned. As Secretary of State Mr. Barclay automatically became Acting President, which he was until elected President...
...White House last week Hoover Herbert and Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China. Such it was, however, in fact. Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this...
When Secretary of State Stimson read of the assault in his morning newspaper, he immediately wrote Dr. Leiva: "I was shocked to learn of the injuries which you suffered last night and I hasten to extend to you an expression of my regret. I assure you the police will make every effort to apprehend the offenders. I trust that you will recover promptly and I want you to know that you have my deepest sympathy." To newsmen the Secretary of State declared that it was a "very serious thing" when diplomats failed to get the protection to which their official...
...perhaps the most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value of that personal, friendly intercourse which it is the principal task of diplomacy to maintain...