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With the Far Eastern sky flaming as red as the sunburst of the Japanese flag, President Hoover, looking worn and worried, summoned Secretaries Stimson of State, Hurley of War and Adams of the Navy for a White House Council. With them hurried General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations, and William Richards Castle Jr., Undersecretary of State. Dr. Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, brought along maps of China, laid them out in the Lincoln Study. The President and his advisers hunched over them, talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Steaming Orders | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...President began by sending the Senate at its request the entire diplomatic correspondence that had passed between Washington and Tokyo and Nanking since the original development of Sino-Japanese hostilities in Manchuria. Secretary Stimson's exchange of views with the British Government, through Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, terminated in an agreement whereby the U. S. and Great Britain decided to work shoulder-to-shoulder in protecting their citizens in Shanghai. Secretary Stimson also asked Japan, through Ambassador William Cameron Forbes, to make clear its stand in using the International Settlement as a base for military operations against the native...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Steaming Orders | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Emerging from a conference with Secretary Stimson, Admiral Pratt ordered the entire Asiatic fleet to prepare for China service. "Our fleet will be ready to evacuate our nationals or to protect them if a crisis arises where mob rule prevails." said he. A correspondent asked him what would happen if Japan did not favor the move. "That," said Admiral Pratt, "would be just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Steaming Orders | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Juana, Mexico, Feb. 2--Leaving for San Francisco in hour stop none your business what doing Tia Juana stop wire fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Huey, The Cooney Oriental Leaps Into Limelight | 2/3/1932 | See Source »

...Shocking indictment!" cried U. S. Secretary of State Stimson after reading the report prepared 17 months ago by a League of Nations commission investigating Liberia. What shocked Statesman Stimson more than financial troubles, insanitary conditions or administrative incompetence was the Commission's discovery that the Republic, founded as a refuge for American freed slaves, was practicing slavery itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Shocking, Sensational | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

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