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...Approved the promotion of Secretary of State Stimson to the rank of brigadier general in the Army reserve...
...hands of Sir John Allsebrook Simon last week than in those of any other man. At Geneva the British Foreign Secretary suavely brought the League Assembly around to a certain way of looking at the Sino-Japanese situation. This viewpoint approximated that of President Hoover and Secretary Stimson. Meanwhile at Shanghai, where the Japanese victory had become embarrassingly pyrrhic (see p. 16), worried Japanese generals, admirals and diplomats flocked around the British Minister, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, who was, of course, under orders from his chief, Sir John Simon...
...observer" was U. S. Minister to Switzerland Hugh Wilson. Three times during a single League Assembly sitting tall, sad-eyed Sir John Simon walked over to Observer Wilson and publicly whispered in his ear. This British courtesy and the general line of Sir John's efforts so pleased Mr. Stimson that next day he told Washington correspondents that now "all nations can speak with the same voice." A spokesman for Observer Wilson said that he was "very grateful" to Sir John. For what...
What Sir John proceeded to do, as a few astute Britons frankly pointed out, was this: he pressed upon the League the Asiatic policy which Mr. Stimson enunciated in his letter to Senator Borah (TIME. March 7). Thus Sir John tucked some exceedingly strange bedfellows into the League bed, but at the same time he kept Mother Britain's apron clear, no matter what may happen. Blame for the policy which the League proceeded to adopt was promptly heaped by Tokyo upon Washington. "Mr. Stimson," said the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman acidly, "is leading the League by the nose...
...attempted to look beyond immediate effects and to discover, if possible, its ultimate significance. With a well buttressed premise that the Kellogg-Briand Pact is not, strictly speaking, a treaty and that it authorizes no enforcement against refractory signatories, the article moves on to predict portentous effects of the Stimson letter upon international relations in the future. Instead of encouraging an immediate forceful alteration of unsatisfactory treaties, such a policy would lead to lengthy controversies about rights, protracted friction between disputing powers, and possible hostilities. Furthermore, universally accepted it would provide a highly undesirable loophole of indefinite claims through which...