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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover did not issue that statement last week. Instead he shifted the authority and responsibility of explaining his position to Undersecretary of State Joseph Potter Cotton who spoke for him. Explanations were in order because of utter confusion among the World Press as to the Hoover-Stimson policy at the London Naval Conference. Wise indeed was the President not to speak out in his own official person. Had he done so, he would have encumbered himself with a direct responsibility for all of Statesman Stimson's future deeds or misdeeds at the Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: High Hope | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Symptoms. Despite Secretary Stimson, the following symptoms of rigor mortis were evident last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond Human Aid | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Three-Power Treaty? There remained the cold-turkey possibility of a three-power treaty between Great Britain, Japan and the U. S. Legal experts were at work on rough drafts of this last week. The tenuous hope for a five-power treaty, to which Messrs. Stimson and MacDonald still clung, rested entirely on the ability of France and Italy to adjust their differences. Last week's efforts to achieve this produced nothing but a few bits of repartee. At a meeting of the naval experts, the French spokesman insisted that "all hulks capable of conversion into effective battlecraft, must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond Human Aid | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Salt & Opium. As he painfully kept up his 200-mile walk, last week?not like an imaginary Statesman Stimson trudging to London?but as the unique "Recpolman" Gandhi, breathless spectators watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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