Word: stimson
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Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson has rejected a proposal by the American Defense--Harvard Group committee for the education of Nazi prisoners of war in this country. The two letters from the War Department disagreeing with the Harvard committee's resolutions were made public Tuesday by Warren A. Seavey '02, Bussey Professor of Law and vice chairman of the Harvard Group...
...answer to the request that discussion groups and books advancing democratic principles be provided for the prisoners, Secretary Stimson said that, "All prisoners ... are free to express their desires for education and ...their interests are encouraged by the War Department through making available to them the necessary materials, time, and opportunity...
Inside police lines at the train platform, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson led Cabinet members aboard Franklin Roosevelt's car. The rain came down harder. The big, black automobile with bulletproof windows moved up beside the train, with the President's grandson, five-year-old Johnnie Boettiger, wriggling excitedly beside the driver...
...Isolationist? "My opponent says that the heavy hand of isolationism governed our country in the 1920s. Does he mean to apply that term to the three great Republican Secretaries of State: Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg and Henry L. Stimson, his own present Secretary of War? If so, I am afraid he has a very convenient memory...
...that we really had our last chance to bring order out of the chaos of international money exchange and trade. The London Economic Conference had been labored over for months by Republican Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. . . . Mr. Roosevelt deliberately scuttled that conference. That was the most completely isolationist action ever taken by an American President in our 150 years of history...