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...squalid, sweltering Muscat last week the Sultan of Oman was glad within him: from Washington had come good news. Henry Lewis Stimson, the faraway, almost mythical Secretary of State of the U. S. was in a mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause...
...does want-he desperately wants-to collect more than a measly 5% on U. S. imports. Vith the treasury at Muscat running perilously low, representatives of Oman recently appealed as suppliants to the Great White President and his Statesman Stimson...
Mindful of Ambassador Dawes's use of strong language, Senators immediately got the idea that the documents would make racy personal reading, called for them louder than ever. Reports spread that Ambassador Dawes had characterized one British proposal as "damned nonsense," that Secretary of State Stimson had referred to certain U. S. Senators as "pin-heads." Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a Treaty proponent, insisted, however, that he had read the secret documents and had "had a hard time keeping awake...
...Passed a resolution asking Secretary of State Stimson by what authorization of law did he venture to pass upon the Bank of International Settlements' offering bonds in U. S. markets...
Thus Japan's Chief Delegate confirmed rumors current at the time of the Conference that Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson leaned heavily on British diplomats and that all major feats of statecraft were performed by Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald before the Conference opened. From further remarks of Mr. Wakatsuki in Tokyo last week it appeared that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was not the man who brought the Japanese- to whom he was assigned-around. The Chief Delegate said that after his subordinate, Ambassador Matsudaira, and Senator Reed had become deadlocked he, Reijiro Wakatsuki, went over their heads...