Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back from a month-long vacation in the Adirondacks, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson had last week to compete in a strange diplomatic race. The question was that of granting recognition to the three new governments which military revolutions had ushered in in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. Though the Argentine Government was little over a week old, the powers of Europe were falling over one another to recognize the new regime and thereby gain prestige, economic advantages. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Scandinavian countries had already resumed normal diplomatic relations and Great Britain, chief U. S. rival in Argentina...
...Washington meticulous Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson, successor to Mr. Kellogg as Secretary of State, took care lest M. Briand be literally believed, lest any U. S. citizen think that President Hoover or the Administration had "sent" Mr. Kellogg tripping into the wildwood of European entanglements...
...Kellogg was in no sense a candidate of this Government," stated Statesman Stimson, "but we may nevertheless express our pleasure...
...State Department as one of the five most expensive posts in the world, Minister Harrison, unable to find suitable quarters elsewhere, took a hotel suite at $18,000 per year, as against a rental allowance of $3,000 per year. He began to write letters to Secretary of State Stimson, complaining of conditions. Statesman Stimson replied. Their correspondence grew acrimonious. Statesman Stimson curtly vetoed Minister Harrison's proposal that he return to the U. S. and explain in person why it was so hard to live in Montevideo. Such tension had apparently developed that last week it was reported...
Washington v. London. In Washington the President and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson were officially "shocked" by Argentina's revolution but not even officially grieved. As one official frankly said, "Dr. Irigoyen's fall has eliminated the outstanding menace to the prestige of the United States in Latin America...