Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mindful of Ambassador Dawes's use of strong language, Senators immediately got the idea that the documents would make racy personal reading, called for them louder than ever. Reports spread that Ambassador Dawes had characterized one British proposal as "damned nonsense," that Secretary of State Stimson had referred to certain U. S. Senators as "pin-heads." Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a Treaty proponent, insisted, however, that he had read the secret documents and had "had a hard time keeping awake...
Heavy on the hands of Secretary of State Stimson hangs the problem of Soviet Russia, which the U. S. has not formally recognized as existing but with which the State Department must nevertheless occasionally, deviously cope. When it was a matter of reminding Russia that, as a signatory of the Pact of Paris, she really should not go to war with China, Statesman Stimson had to utilize the good offices of Foreign Minister Briand of France as interlocutor (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week another ticklish Russian problem arose, Mr. Stimson's second. He felt it advisable to prevent...
Statesman Stimson seemed driven to this ground for his announcement by the fact that both Britain and the U. S. have been selling fighting planes to the Nationalists (anti-Soviet) in China. Thus it was too late to invoke the Pact of Paris for this emergency. The somewhat paradoxical ground of U. S. non recognition of Russia laid the State Department open to fresh charges of "hypocritical and unwarranted interference with American business" (Scripps-Howard). Also it was obvious that unrecognized Russia must construe the act as an unfriendly one. Nevertheless, Mr. Stimson took these risks. From the historical viewpoint...
...Passed a resolution asking Secretary of State Stimson by what authorization of law did he venture to pass upon the Bank of International Settlements' offering bonds in U. S. markets...
Thus Japan's Chief Delegate confirmed rumors current at the time of the Conference that Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson leaned heavily on British diplomats and that all major feats of statecraft were performed by Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald before the Conference opened. From further remarks of Mr. Wakatsuki in Tokyo last week it appeared that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was not the man who brought the Japanese- to whom he was assigned-around. The Chief Delegate said that after his subordinate, Ambassador Matsudaira, and Senator Reed had become deadlocked he, Reijiro Wakatsuki, went over their heads...