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Heavy on the hands of Secretary of State Stimson hangs the problem of Soviet Russia, which the U. S. has not formally recognized as existing but with which the State Department must nevertheless occasionally, deviously cope. When it was a matter of reminding Russia that, as a signatory of the Pact of Paris, she really should not go to war with China, Statesman Stimson had to utilize the good offices of Foreign Minister Briand of France as interlocutor (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week another ticklish Russian problem arose, Mr. Stimson's second. He felt it advisable to prevent...
Statesman Stimson seemed driven to this ground for his announcement by the fact that both Britain and the U. S. have been selling fighting planes to the Nationalists (anti-Soviet) in China. Thus it was too late to invoke the Pact of Paris for this emergency. The somewhat paradoxical ground of U. S. non recognition of Russia laid the State Department open to fresh charges of "hypocritical and unwarranted interference with American business" (Scripps-Howard). Also it was obvious that unrecognized Russia must construe the act as an unfriendly one. Nevertheless, Mr. Stimson took these risks. From the historical viewpoint...
...Hoover at the Meyer mansion, the President-elect motored to Mount Vernon and Arlington, then dressed for dinner in his pink-draped bedroom, hurried back to the White House where pink roses, hollyhocks and maidenhair ferns decked a banquet board set for 56 men. Vice President Curtis, with Statesman Stimson on his right, faced President Hoover, with President-elect Prestes on his right...
...Faith and Beauty!" Next day Guest Prestes was welcomed to the imposing, white marble Pan-American Building by Statesman Stimson, who as an old school New York lawyer gallantly attempted an oration which would sound sufficiently fiery and cordial when cabled to Rio: ". . . Delightful task of welcoming you! ... In the history of international relations no country occupies a prouder place than Brazil...
...banquet address Mr. Hoover did not (like Mr. Stimson previously) attempt to speak with fervor, but his painstakingly read remarks contained one fine superlative...