Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt were the New Isolationists, intent on a Brave New World. Raymond Moley, impatient with the fuddy-duddy, international-cooperation ideas of Tennessee's Cordell Hull, was horrified at the President's willingness to consult with Herbert Hoover's world-minded Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. "Three thousand miles of good green water" on each coast seemed an ample guaranty of security forever...
...arguments of Senator Taft, are Candidate Dewey's current blasts. Nor has he raged intemperately on foreign affairs. He has expressed approval of traditional U. S. foreign policy (except for the New Deal "blunder"' of recognizing Soviet Russia), esteems seasoned well-respected ex-Secretary of State Henry Stimson, who in turn thinks highly of Secretary of State Hull. Dewey's slugs at the New Deal are sudden, savage, singleminded, are concentrated mostly on the New Deal's failure to put the unemployed to work. Single-minded is his answer to the U. S. economic problem...
...about renewing its trade treaty with Japan, which lapses next week. While this did not mean any immediate hardship, it did mean that at any moment the U. S. might declare an embargo which would stop 74% of the Army's war supplies. Last week Colonel Henry L. Stimson, who as Secretary of State (1929-33) constantly opposed Japanese ambitions, urged just such an embargo...
Simply on the basis of his achievements in international affairs, Cordell Hull has become, of all things, very nearly an idol of the very men who know how difficult his task has been-the two living former Secretaries of State. Henry L. Stimson (Hoover) believes Hull is one of the greatest of all Secretaries; dashes off letters to the New York Times every time Mr. Hull is criticized. Charles Evans Hughes (Harding & Coolidge) is known to believe implicitly in both Hull's ideals and capacities; even John Bassett Moore (many times Assistant Secretary of State and author...