Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stimson on Ludlow. Alf Landon's complaint against Congress was due to the Ludlow Resolution (TIME, Dec. 27), a proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for declaration of war by national referendum rather than act of Congress. The Ludlow Resolution has almost no chance of passage anyway, but Henry L. Stimson, who succeeded Frank Kellogg as Secretary of State, came to aid his own embarrassed successor, Cordell Hull. Policies of the U. S. State Department change less with changing administrations than those of any other department. Secretary Stimson and Secretary Hull see almost eye to eye on many matters...
Following Secretary Hull's dignified official belittlement of that measure last fortnight, Mr. Stimson wrote a letter to the New York Times. In a masterly 4,000-word document, Statesman Stimson tore the Resolution to pieces as a device that would not only dangerously divide U. S. sentiment if there were a war but also would defeat its own purposes by so hobbling U. S. diplomacy that situations like the Panay bombing would be far more likely to lead to war than they are at present, Mr. Stimson's conclusion: "No more effective engine for the disruption...
...Chicago Daily News who a year ago, as Republican candidate for Vice President was violently denouncing Franklin Roosevelt, declared "the President's speech was magnificent." The New York Times and the Washington Post published a long letter from Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Mostly written before the President's speech, the letter ended with a paragraph written after it in which the statesman who guided U. S. policy in the last Sino-Japanese crisis in 1931-32 said he was "filled with hope" that "this act of leadership . . . will result in a new birth...
...These figures include Manchuria, which the Great Powers still consider part of China under the "Stimson Doctrine/' although Japan considers it her puppet empire of Manchukuo...
Henry Lewis Stimson LL.D...