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...Foreign Ministers, one rung down the diplomatic ladder, pair off with Secretaries of State. When Britain's MacDonald and France's Laval visited the White House, it was President Hoover who joined each in a public statement of thing accomplished. Last week it was Secretary of State Stimson's part to collaborate with Dino Grandi in the above summary of the Italian Foreign Minister's three-day round of Capital conversations...
...once for a courteous "Excellency! Excellency!," once for a respectful "A rivederci," once for a great State dinner in his honor and once for a long private talk with the President. In the Lincoln Study three easy chairs were pulled before the fireplace. Into them sank Messrs. Hoover, Grandi & Stimson. Because of the Foreign Minister's good command of English, no interpreter was necessary and in two and one-half hours the trio covered the equivalent of what last month it took a non-English-speaking Premier and a non-French-speaking President five hours to discuss. President Hoover...
...Japan was in closest diplomatic touch with U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, several times rumored last week to be on the point of negotiating a compromise with Ambassador Debuchi in Washington, though this did not receive official confirmation. The compromise was understood to be on "realistic lines," taking into consideration that anarchy would follow abrupt withdrawal of Japanese troops from Manchuria, yet striving to uphold China's more flagrantly violated rights; the compromise to lead to direct negotiations between China and Japan...
...mass of new facts, largely pertaining to pre-presidential days. Nicholas Murray Butler and Elihu Root released their Roosevelt correspondence. Ralph Pulitzer turned over evidence on Panama which the New York World assembled for its defense when President Roosevelt ordered U. S. Attorney for New York Henry Lewis Stimson (now Secretary of State) to prosecute for criminal libel. From Dr. William H. Wilmer Biographer Pringle learned that the President went blind in his left eye in 1908 and "not more than a half dozen people knew it." Mrs. Robert Bacon helped fill in the blank spots on the first Roosevelt...
From Washington to Tokyo a secret note was sent by Secretary of State Stimson. Japanese sent a secret reply, also charged publicly that a League of Nations representative in Shanghai has spent $120,000 Mex. ($30.000) in the past few weeks cabling the Chinese Government's point of view to the detriment of Japan...