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Secretary of State Stimson read the committee a long and rather dull statement detailing Germany's plight just before the Moratorium announcement. When the committee began a series of gentle questions, Statesman Stimson grew fussy and fidgety. "You can't send a sheriff overseas to collect the debt, you know," he snapped at one heckler. Henry Pomeroy Davison, youthful partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., was hastily summoned from New York to deny published reports that debtor nations had on deposit with his firm funds to make their Dec. 15 payments...
...Five heavy black Cabinet chairs were lined up last week on the official posing ground back of the Executive offices. Out strode President Hoover with a grey hat, Vice President Curtis with a black one. Secretary of State Stimson marched out in a derby. Soon the full Cabinet was assembled. A solid semicircle of cameramen began snapping, clicking and cranking at them to get the first picture in more than a year of the President & official family. Secretary of Labor Doak stood at attention on the left next to Secretary of the Navy Adams for his first picture with...
...Washington that cautious and conservative old Manhattan lawyer, Statesman Stimson, had of course made no such bold statement. To one of his press conferences had come a group of correspondents, vaguely hopeful that the State Department's sphinx might say something and permit quotation. What did Mr. Stimson think, they asked, of reports that the Japanese Army had just launched a major offensive against Chinchow, the last Manchurian stronghold still in Chinese hands? Were the League of Nations...
...Stimson had nothing to say for quotation. But speaking informally he let quite a cat out of his diplomatic bag. He revealed the drift of an exchange of notes with the Imperial Government which he had asked the Japanese to keep secret and which they had kept secret. The striking part of Mr. Stimson's revelation was that he had received assurances not only from Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara but also through him further assurances from Japanese War Minister General Jiro Minanmi and from the Chief of the Japanese General Staff. These assurances were such, declared Mr. Stimson...
...permitted to quote Mr. Stimson's original words, each correspondent had had to make what he could of them. The Associated Pressman came to the conclusion that, since Mr. Stimson could not "understand" the advance of the Japanese Army contrary to so many assurances, State Department officials doubtless credited widespread reports of a feud between the peaceably inclined Japanese civil Cabinet and pugnacious independent Japanese militarists like General Honjo. "Officials were given the impression," wired the A. P. in summarizing Mr. Stimson's press conference, "that the Military party, which is not under complete control of the civil...