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Japanese shot & shell dropping into Shanghai have done more during the last month than spread death & destruction among luckless Chinese. They have also dropped into the lawyer-like mind of Secretary of State Stimson a mass of new and anxious thoughts on the peace of the Pacific. Last week Statesman Stimson was ready to take out these thoughts and put them down on paper. There was a sharp buzz of diplomatic excitement when Washington heard he was writing "something." Some correspondents predicted it would be a "stiff note" to Japan, protesting her aggression in China. Others forecast an "important statement...
...Power Treaty . . . against military aggrandizement at the expense of China. One cannot discuss the possibility of modifying or abrogating the provisions of the Nine-Power Treaty without considering at the same time the other promises upon which they were really de-pendent." In these carefully guarded words lay Secretary Stimson's most potent threat against Japan and its Shanghai gesture. In non-diplomatic language what Mr. Stimson was really saying was this: Japan has violated the Nine-Power Treaty; if that pact is scrapped, the U. S. would be justified in scrapping the capital ship treaty, fortifying Guam...
Vhen Japan and China a few days later agreed "in principle" to withdraw their forces around Shanghai (see p. 21), Secretary Stimson's friends and admirers were confident that his letter had played a potent part in lifting the war clouds, opening the way to peace...
...Senate Committee on Naval Affairs unanimously approved legislation to build the fighting fleet up to full treaty strength. Japan's warlike activities in the Far East were a large psychological factor in propelling the bill out to the Senate. An anxious state of mind was reflected in Secretary Stimson's hint that Japanese hostilities in China might justify a general abrogation of the Washington and London treaties limiting Naval Armament...
...display of force. Whether by design or coincidence, the administration is likely to cause another violent nationalistic reaction in Japan. Memory is all too clear about the effect on Japanese public opinion of the League's "firm stand" in November, and the anger caused by garbled accounts of Secretary Stimson's remarks on the last Manchurian offensive...