Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to Marine inaction was being formulated in Washington by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. The Hoover Administration was deciding to underplay rather than overplay its military strength in Central America. Five days after the slaughter of the nine U. S. citi- zens, Secretary Stimson bluntly instructed U. S. diplomats and consular agents in Nicaragua as follows...
...rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman, telegraphed urgently to the White House from New Orleans. When Secretary Stimson announced withdrawal, Standard officials in New Orleans expressed "profound disappointment," predicted that Nicaraguan bandits would now dare greater depredations...
Heaviest U. S. investments ($70,000,000) are in Honduras.* Besides the fruit companies, Tropical Timber Co., New York & Honduran Rosario Mining Co., West End Opetceca Mining Co., U. S. Continental Mines Co., Copper Consolidated and American Chicle Co. are extensive owners and operators in the country. Secretary Stimson quickly differentiated between "banditry" in Nicaragua and "revolution" in Honduras. He conferred with the Navy Department, had three big fast cruisers (Memphis, Marblehead and Trenton) despatched to Honduran ports to protect U. S. life and property. In the Navy orders, however, were specific instructions that U. S. forces should guard only...
Assured of cruisers, United Fruit, from its Boston headquarters, announced that no U. S. lives or property were so far endangered by the fighting in Honduras. While hecklers charged that the revolt was directly connected with the withdrawal order for Nicaragua, Secretary Stimson was advised by U. S. Minister Lay at Tegucigalpa that the uprising had no large political backing, would soon "fizzle...
Statesman Mo. Statesman Stimson tried, failed two years ago to make peace between China and Russia by invoking the Kellogg Pact (TIME, Aug. 5, 1929). Ignoring him, Chinese and Soviet statesmen made their own peace at far away Habarovsk on Soviet soil (see map). But this peace has been followed by a host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with...