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Secretary of State Stimson had an announcement for the Press last week. He had just cabled U. S. Ambassador Irwin B. Laughlin at Madrid to call at Spain's Foreign Office, extend formal recognition to the new Republic (see p. 20). Ambassador Laughlin, he added, will remain at Madrid, though officially accredited to the Court of Alfonso XIII. He acknowledged that, before acting, the U. S. had waited to see what Great Britain and France were going...
Heaviest U. S. investments ($70,000,000) are in Honduras.* Besides the fruit companies, Tropical Timber Co., New York & Honduran Rosario Mining Co., West End Opetceca Mining Co., U. S. Continental Mines Co., Copper Consolidated and American Chicle Co. are extensive owners and operators in the country. Secretary Stimson quickly differentiated between "banditry" in Nicaragua and "revolution" in Honduras. He conferred with the Navy Department, had three big fast cruisers (Memphis, Marblehead and Trenton) despatched to Honduran ports to protect U. S. life and property. In the Navy orders, however, were specific instructions that U. S. forces should guard only...
Assured of cruisers, United Fruit, from its Boston headquarters, announced that no U. S. lives or property were so far endangered by the fighting in Honduras. While hecklers charged that the revolt was directly connected with the withdrawal order for Nicaragua, Secretary Stimson was advised by U. S. Minister Lay at Tegucigalpa that the uprising had no large political backing, would soon "fizzle...
Statesman Mo. Statesman Stimson tried, failed two years ago to make peace between China and Russia by invoking the Kellogg Pact (TIME, Aug. 5, 1929). Ignoring him, Chinese and Soviet statesmen made their own peace at far away Habarovsk on Soviet soil (see map). But this peace has been followed by a host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with...
Honeymooning Princess Kikuko of Japan asked Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson how long U. S. Prohibition would last. He referred her to President Herbert Clark Hoover...