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...Enrique Olaya journeyed to the U. S. with all the usual trappings of a good-will visitor. In New York he was welcomed by Mayor Walker. A special train carried him to Washington where President Hoover gave a White House dinner in his honor (TIME, June 16, 1930). Secretary Stimson also gave him a big dinner at which Dr. Olaya met Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. They talked socially about Colombia's financial plight. Though Mr. Mellon later denied it. President-elect Olaya was sure he heard the Treasury Secretary mention Colombia...
...final $4,000.000 in Colombia's bank credit was unaccountably held up in New York. President Olaya complained to Secretary Stimson who went in person to see the attorney of National City Co. in New York. The hankers were not urged not to be "unduly technical." Mr. Schoepperle insisted that the Colombian budget had not been balanced as agreed and as for the Barco con cession, he did not "give a damn." On June 20, 1931 the Barco concession was restored to Gulf Oil Corp., to the large satisfaction of the State Department. On June 30 Mr. Schoepperle released...
...Statesman Stimson, as it appeared circumstantially, played the Barco con cession against the $4,000,000 loan and thus secured a triumph of dollar diplomacy? No, was his indignant answer. The two matters, while parallel, were separate and distinct. The State Department insisted that its sole concern in these negotiations was "the fostering of friendly relations...
...took the post of chairman of the board (see p. 11). Banker Dawes, who had already resigned as Ambassador to Great Britain, resigned also as No. 1 U. S. delegate to the Geneva Arms Conference. To Geneva will go no less an official than Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...
Foreign Minister Yoshizawa's first official duty was to proffer yet another explanation. He answered Secretary Stimson's note of Jan. 7 which invoked the Kellogg anti-war pact and the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing China's integrity. Other nations failed notably to back the Stimson stand, but Kenkichi Yoshizawa returned a soft answer: Japan would never, never dream of annexing Manchuria, and as for the policy of the "Open Door" in China, the Japanese Government promised to maintain it "in so far as they can secure...