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...days after election Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, called upon Secretary of State Stimson, left a note which said: "His Majesty's Government . . . believe that the regime of intergovernmental financial obligations, as now existing, must be reviewed. . . . The immediate objective is of a more limited nature. . . . His Majesty's Government ask for a suspension of the payments due from them [Dec. 15]." A French note delivered next day at the State Department suavely echoed the request "that an extension of the suspension of payments may be granted in order that the study of the present serious problems now under discussion...
...discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt...
...dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled him to impeachment." Declared Senator Glass...
Once again last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from Illinois justice, slipped out of his hotel's service entrance. But this time it was no prelude to flight. He was accompanied by M. Coutsamaris, chief of the Athenian Security Police. Three days prior, Secretary of State Stimson and Greek Minister Charalambos Simopoulos had met in Washington, D. C. and exchanged extradition treaties, making it possible for the U. S. to demand the arrest and return of Mr. Insull...
...League of Nations survives the next few years, the United States will be compelled to join," said W. Y. Elliott, professor of government, in an interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter. "It is rather clear that our position on the Stimson doctrine of non-recognition of Manchukuo, the retention of our consuls here, and the "Open Door" policy is apt to get us into difficulties, which would have been less troublesome, if we had been a member of the League...