Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victory, Pen, Gardenia. Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Lewis Stimson, who fought and won a last-minute victory to keep the League of Nations from being mentioned in the Treaty (all the other delegations wished to mention it), said to correspondents after he had deposited his certified copy* in the S. S. Leviathan's safe: "I am not interested in warships any more. My chief trouble now is that I have left one of my suitcases in London...
Will radio eventually supplant newspapers as the prime means of disseminating news? Journalists, disquieted over the question since the perfection of broadcasting, not only had a Cause last week; they had an Issue. President Karl August Bickel of the United Press was distressed that Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates at the London Naval Conference had consistently refused to give personal interviews but had frequently spoken their personal views over the radio. After Secretary Stimson himself spoke over the radio last fortnight, Mr. Bickel cabled...
...hours after radio delivery. . . ." Secretary Stimson replied that the method of dealing with newsmen at the Conference was to give them the facts as they developed, assuming that the Press would "do its own interpreting...
Such speeches as were made by the delegates, he explained, were "their own interpretations" of the news facts. Mr. Stimson did not explain why U. S. delegates could not give "their own interpretations" to the newspapers...
Commenting further, said President Bickel: "'Naturally if the Press abdicates, radio will move in, and in this case apparently Stimson and Page as chief liaison men were importuned by the radio people to give them talks and the newspaper industry apparently simply sat idly by and let them get away with it. ... That was certainly a humiliating position for American newspapers regardless of how excellently it demonstrated the initiative and ability of the radio people...