Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents last week Secretary Stimson made clear that he was not fooling, that he and President Hoover are aroused, that U. S. Minister Mitchell goes to Monrovia to make clean a filthy mess...
...days later): The Liberian Government received a note in which Mr. Stimson stigmatized as "shocking" the League's revelation that Liberia's "suppression of natives" is "scarcely distinguishable from slave raising and slave trading...
...International public opinion will no longer tolerate these twin scourges," continued the Stimson note. "Unless they are abolished . . . [there] will result . . . final alienation of the friendly feelings which the American Government and people have entertained for Liberia...
...Supposing, in view of President Hoover's note of Nov. 1, that Secretary Stimson was only fooling in his note of Nov. 17, the Liberian Government waited, hoping for the best until Dec. 5, on which date President King and Vice President Yancy resigned...
League Report. There is nothing new in the League report on Liberian slave conditions. It is important because it exonerates the U. S. Firestone rubber interests of slaving. This was most important to Secretary Stimson. If he had whitewashed Firestone while tarring Liberia, the whole thing might have looked queer to Europe, queerer to Latin America...