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...fellow Republican Colonel Henry Stimson-also a veteran of World War I, onetime Secretary of State and of War, a glacial, recondite student of foreign affairs-the President's appointee as Secretary of War, appeared before the Senate Military Affairs Committee for the same purpose...
Pacific Policy. All that U. S. diplomacy could do in the Pacific was to wage a rearguard action. Originator of that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced...
...disappear, no matter what wrong man it chose, what platform it shied away from. The conflicts, hesitancies, choices were not going to end abruptly when the gavel fell to mark its final adjournment. Weaknesses the Party showed - many a Republican politico fell into a panic when Republicans Knox and Stimson were appointed to the Roosevelt Cabinet (see p. 11); the Committee on Resolutions pondered for countless tormented hours over how to weasel a foreign-policy plank - and such weaknesses could not be dissolved by the magic of nominating speeches...
...double the patrols along the Canadian and Mexican borders, Congress appropriated $1,600,000. Scared of everything to do with war, several Congressmen denounced Mr. Roosevelt's approval of the sale of new Navy "mosquito boats" to Great Britain, his Cabinet appointments of Stimson and Knox, both known to be somewhat more than pro-Ally...
...Yale's students, 1,486 of whom had petitioned President Roosevelt to keep out of the war, these were alarming words. No less alarming were those of Henry L. Stimson (three days later nominated Secretary of War), who arrived in New Haven to urge fellow Yalemen to support compulsory military training, and of Yale's President Charles Seymour, who on the radio urged repeal of the Neutrality Act and all possible aid to Britain...