Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Britain began accepting half the Hoover-Stimson plan (shifts from a higher to a lower category), but were mum about the other half (shifts from low to high...
...Stimson: "In destroyers. . . we suggest equality in tonnage, and in submarines the lowest tonnage possible...
Submarines Stimson: "As is well known, we will gladly agree to a total abolition of submarines if it is possible to obtain the consent of all five powers to such a proposition, and in any event we suggest that the operations of submarines be limited to the same rules of international law as surface craft in operation against merchant ships, so that they cannot attack without providing for the safety of the passengers and the crew...
...issue of whether France will concede parity to Italy ?as Britain has to the U. S.?remained unsettled, with both parties snarling, and with the French especially angry because their P. T. F. (Proposition Transactionelle Franqaise) or French Basis for Bargaining had been simply ignored by Statesman Stimson, and Statesman MacDonald had snubbed (see Cruisers above) the Tardieu proposal for limitation by "global tonnage...
Secretly communicated by U. S. Senator Reed to the Japanese delegation was a proposal dealing with that country's claims (TIME, Jan. 27) about which Statesman Stimson would say only: "Our suggestion to the Japanese would produce an over-all relation satisfactory to us and, we hope, to them...