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...White House President Hoover was lunching with Secretary of State Stimson. Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover tiptoed into the dining room. Into the President's ear he whispered the news: "Mr. Coolidge has just died of heart failure." After a stunned moment, the President pushed back his chair, laid down his napkin, strode to his office. There he hastily dispatched a special message to Congress, issued a proclamation for 30 days of public mourning. Within five minutes, down to half-staff came the White House flag. Down came the flags of Washington, of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Coolidge | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...veto is widely expected when President Hoover returns from his Florida fishing. He will probably have a hard time mustering the Congressional one-third necessary to sustain his disapproval. Though he has never publicly committed himself on the issue, two potent members of his Cabinet, Secretary of State Stimson, onetime Governor General of the Philippines, and Secretary of War Hurley, who visited the islands as President Hoover's "eyes & ears" in 1931, have been loud in their opposition to turning 13,000,000 Filipinos loose. Common arguments against freeing the Philippines: 1) they are not economically or politically prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Filipinos Freed? | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Since U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson is a man of the mysterious West whose mental processes seem more outlandish to the East every time he sends a note, Japanese could half fear and half believe last week that Washington is leagued with Moscow and Nanking. Staggering would be such an alliance: the world's largest nation (Russia) plus the most populous (China) j)lus the richest (U. S.), and all against Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: 4,000,000 Shocks | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...than it is to take it from him once he has it," stated President Lowell speaking before 600 members of the Foreign Policy Association after a luncheon in the Copley Plaza Hotel on Saturday. He expressed his disapproval of the stand of the United States under the Hoover-Stimson doctrine of non-recognition of the gains of territorial aggression, declaring that instead of preventing war it will tend to lead the world into war. "The way to stop war," he continued, "is to settle its causes before they develop. The Hoover-Stimson policy has made things worse. It tends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL FLAYS HOOVER RECOGNITION DOCTRINE | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...Manchoukuo Government, but for its announcement that it will never recognize gains made by any nation as a result of aggression. "Never before," he said, "has world public opinion been more unanimous on a subject, yet world public opinion has been unable to stop Japan. Nor has the Hoover-Stimson policy had any effect in stopping Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL FLAYS HOOVER RECOGNITION DOCTRINE | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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