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...January 4, 1932 out of the gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure...
Three weeks later Japanese bombs were falling on the flimsy wooden hovels of Chapei, a section of Shanghai and 24,000 Chinese were killed or wounded in the ensuing holocaust. Once again Colonel Stimson tried to rally Britain by suggesting that the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, which Japan had signed at Washington in 1922, be invoked. Once again Sir John Simon turned his back. The Japanese, undisturbed, made mince meat of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army...
During the past six years of the neutrality seesaw, three schools have fought to control U. S. peace policy: 1) the "sanctionist" school, led by former Secretary of State Stimson, aims to keep the U. S. out of war by penalizing aggressor nations which start wars-depriving them, but not their victims of access to U. S. resources and credits; 2) the isolationist school, headed by some 40 Senators, argues that it is not the business of the U. S. to act as judge of international morals-let the U. S. keep out of war by having nothing...
...Stimson offered Britain U. S. collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort...
This information was the more interesting because last week Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman-after weeks of outcry by friends of peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought...