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...duty to forward the document to Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, with carbon copy for Geneva? Or should we leave the diplomatists to their own devices in finding out who started the trouble in Manchuria...
...Secretary of State Stimson, looking worried, rushed in upon President Hoover one morning to report that he (Mr. Stimson; was the centre of a hot diplomatic incident with Japan. He had, he said, been misquoted on the Manchurian situation in press despatches to Tokyo...
Wrathfully one day last week almost every shimbun (newspaper) in the Japanese Empire front-paged a picture of U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Scorching captions declared that in Washington he had "insulted the Imperial Japanese Army by charging, with ignorant presumption, that it has run amuck...
Excited Japanese devoured the captions, cursed Statesman Stimson by the million, spat by the thousand upon his inoffensive likeness. Even at the Japanese Foreign Office, where velvet politeness is an iron rule, Press Spokesman Shiratori Toshio snapped: "If a man in Mr. Stimson's position loses his head at such a critical moment in the affairs of Japan, the consequences would be very grave indeed. . . . Mr. Stimson says the Japanese Army in Manchuria 'ran amuck.' This is considered a very bold statement indeed...
...take back for a Roman holiday he did carry in his diplomatic luggage intangibles hardly less valuable-a personal friendship with a U. S. President, glowing goodwill from Press and Public, a better understanding of U. S. intentions. Because these things were hard to write about, because Secretary Stimson made them even more intangible in his lawyer-like announcement, a sector...