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When Secretary of State Stimson read of the assault in his morning newspaper, he immediately wrote Dr. Leiva: "I was shocked to learn of the injuries which you suffered last night and I hasten to extend to you an expression of my regret. I assure you the police will make every effort to apprehend the offenders. I trust that you will recover promptly and I want you to know that you have my deepest sympathy." To newsmen the Secretary of State declared that it was a "very serious thing" when diplomats failed to get the protection to which their official...
...perhaps the most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value of that personal, friendly intercourse which it is the principal task of diplomacy to maintain...
...Berhanena Salam to the U. S. State Department. The Government's semi-official organ, printed on Emperor Haile Selassie's private press, only paper with a national circulation in Abyssinia. (Abyssinians are more than 90% illiterate), Berhanena Salam's leading editorial was marked for Statesman Stimson's consideration. Extolling the virtues of Temperance, expounding the evils of tej (native liquor, made from honey), the editorial was released by the State Department "not as Prohibition propaganda but as interesting reading." Excerpts...
Nicaragua, U. S. citizens and other aliens in the little towns along the Mosquito Coast waited breathlessly for a repetition of the bandit raids which caused the slaughter at Logtown fortnight ago (TIME, April 27). In Washington Secretary Stimson stood firm under the lashings of Big Stick Advocates. The new Hoover-Stimson Nicaraguan policy was backed up by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson with an announcement to the effect that Britain, too, will not attempt to protect her nationals in Nicaragua's interior...
...Their Majesties and their party, accompanied by the Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson, the Siamese Minister and the Acting Chief of the Protocol Division, will leave the residence for Arlington National Cemetery to place a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...