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Statesman Stimson hesitated to ask Mother League to dance. His first idea was that she alone should soothe howling China and spank obstreperous Japan. In his note to Geneva fortnight ago Stag Stimson firmly put his white-gloved hands behind his back with these words: "It is most desirable that the League in no way relax its vigilance and in no way fail to assert all the pressure and authority within its competence toward regulating the action of China and Japan" (TIME...
...Briand, famed "Master Parliamentarian of Europe," knew well enough that what Mr. Stimson had called "all the pressure and authority" of the League is not enough to coerce a Great Power like Japan. Also, the Japanese Cabinet was already showing fury at Mr. Stimson's use of the noun "pressure" and the verb "regulate." There was only one smart thing for M. Briand to do: stall. But how? As the Frenchman wracked his agile brain in Geneva, Mr. Stimson provided the thing needed...
Nobody must suppose, correspondents were told by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, that President Hoover was taking sides when he sent the following cable last week...
Matter of fact, Statesman Stimson was so upset about China & Japan and whether they were resorting to war as an instrument of national policy or just fighting, that he did not go out to lunch. Beaming Negroes brought steaming trays. Without leaving his desk, the Secretary munched with his advisers, including U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes, in Washington on vacation. Alarmingly the New York Herald Tribune, chief Administration newsorgan, reported: "The situation in Manchuria holds the major attention of the State Department. . . . Open warfare between China and Japan would present a more delicate international problem for this...
...cannot give out what I have done or what we are now doing," said Statesman Stimson later, "but the State Department is working hard...