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...Japan, officials were reticent but beaming. So good a neighbor as President Roosevelt, they opined, is unlikely to interfere with the aspirations of Japan in China, whereas under President Hoover there was inaugurated the "Stimson Doctrine" which even now persists among the Great Powers and has blocked Japan from obtaining recognition for her puppet empire Manchukuo. Because they still hate Hoover & Stimson, Japanese particularly like Roosevelt & Hull...
...revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans must be substituted for general charges. Similarly, the Republicans must make specific their programs for peace, neutrality, and the limitation of war profits, make definite their retreat from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, their objections to out-Stimsoning Stimson in the Pacific...
...Secretary General Joseph Avenol of the League of Nations onetime U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson cabled last week from his Manhattan law office: WHILE DEEPLY APPRECIATING THE HONOR CONFERRED BY THE NATIONAL GROUPS WHICH HAVE SUGGESTED MY CANDIDACY FOR THE WORLD COURT, I REGRET TO SAY THAT IT IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION. With Statesman Stimson thus eliminating himself, the way was open for the League Assembly to elect a jurist against whom it could not well be argued that he was "political" and narrowly represented his country's interests...
...virtually boundless. Having stayed long enough to achieve a notable reputation for tact and efficiency, the eleventh and last Governor General of the Philippines may have concluded that the post might prove for him the same kind of stepping stone which it was for the eighth. Henry Lewis Stimson, who became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State; or for the first, William Howard Taft, who went home to be Secretary of War, later President...
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, the Argentine recalled in rosy terms the "Stimson Doctrine" of simply not recognizing that Japan has made a great conquest in China and dominates Manchukuo (TIME, March 28, 1932). According to Señor Cantilo this Stimson Doctrine could well be applied today not only to Manchukuo but also to Ethiopia -its great attraction to harassed statesmen being that it enables them to give an imposing name to doing nothing and omitting year after year to make up their minds...