Word: stimson
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That all the petitions sent to Washington demanding a positive reduction of naval armament rather than parity at the possible expense of increased armaments are entirely uncalled for is the impression which Secretary of State Stimson apparently wishes to convey in the communication appearing in this morning's CRIMSON...
However, whatever as the function of the University and whatever value may lie in the adolescent intervention in national affairs, this crying in the wilderness is rather interesting in the light of Harvard's recent petition to Stimson and Hoover in regard to the management of the disarmament conference. Undergraduate publications in practically all American colleges bear witness to an interest in other problems of national and world significance. If in the face of these facts Dr. Meiklejohn still insists on the indifference of the students, he will run the risk of becoming a male Cassandra, prophet only of evil...
...Those who, like Vice President Curtis . . ., accused President Hoover of being pro-British on the basis of his long residence under the British flag, are reading in the Stimson proposals substantiation of their suspicions...
Thirty Harvard faculty members and 500 undergraduates have signed the petition for drastic limitation of armamerrt which the Harvard Liberal Club is sending to President Hoover. The club has sent a cable to London notifying Secretary Stimson of its action. A similar petition is being circulated at Radcliffe under the auspices of President Comstock...
Submarines. Ever since 1898 when U. S. inventor John P. Holland followed the research of countless other experimenters and built the first practicable modern submarine, submarines and submarine-warfare have been an important international problem. Last week U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, representing the country which owns the greatest fleet of effective submarines in commission (76), the country most opposed to their use, led the conference's half-hearted attempt to abolish them. Said...