Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscientious best to keep the State Department in Washington posted on the ebb and flow of the civil war. It looked to him as if the rebels would be defeated by the Federal forces of President Washington Luis and he so informed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...
This information jibed with Statesman Stimson's preconceptions of the Brazilian revolt. The U. S. Government, having officially entertained Handsome Julio Prestes, President Washington Luis's elected successor, in Washington last June, had every reason to want and expect him to take office this month. On the strength of Secretary Washington's reports and the direct request of the Brazilian Ambassador in Washington, President Hoover last week clapped down an arms embargo against the revolutionists. Penalty for its violation: $10,000 fine, two years in gaol...
...State Department the rebels were described as little better than bandits. Munitions and arms including a dozen airplanes were shipped to the support of the Brazilian federals. Statesman Stimson explained that, though this was the first time the U. S. had applied an embargo to a South American revolution, it was no precedent because the same method had been used before under international law to squelch rebellions in Mexico, Central America, China...
...Washington embargo, the Washington Luis government fell with a resounding thump which jarred official nerves in Washington (see p. 24). But it was not too late for Ambassador Morgan to salvage some U. S. goodwill (U. S. trade with Brazil: $316,000,000 per year). He cabled Statesman Stimson...
...Government officials here hint they would like to know what the Brazilian government promised in return for Mr. Stimson's benediction. The British have had long experience in such transactions, and take it for granted that the State Department is not entirely altruistic this time." Prisoner Proof. In the actual theatre of Brazil's Civil War-an area as large as the U. S. states east of the Mississippi River-towns and cities were frequently "captured" by both Federals and Rebels simultaneously last week-if their official announcements were to be believed. ' The main fighting line, insofar...