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Bucolic Virtues. Morgenthau labeled as a fallacy the argument of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson and such State Department planners as Dean Acheson that Europe's economic health depended on German industrial production. By closing down the Ruhr and Saar, he argued, the Allies could revive the flagging industry of France, Belgium and Britain. As for the millions of Germans who would be left unemployed by such moves, Morgenthau said: "Sure, it is a terrific problem. Let the Germans solve it. Why the hell should I worry about what happens to their people?" As a farmer, Morgenthau firmly believed...
...ratified a total of 97 international agreements, most of them bilateral ones, providing for the settlement of international disputes by arbitration and conciliation. This enormous diplomatic effort occupied much of the time of such eminent Secretaries of State as John Hay, Elihu Root, William Jennings Bryan, and Henry Stimson. The measure of realism behind it may be judged from the fact that the number of disputes actually arbitrated in subsequent years in connection with these treaties was exactly two, and for these acts of arbitration, the treaties themselves were in no way necessary...
Always a soldier's soldier, he also had to make sense to civilians. In Henry Stimson, a lawyer and a courtly gentleman, he found a perfect Secretary of War, but by no means a complaisant one. Stimson and Marshall both policed the perimeter of their authority and never let develop the kind of abrasive relations that were common in Washington between politician and the military...
...BILL STIMSON Medical Lake, Wash...
...dissenting board member, Mrs. Vivian Katz, wife of Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law urged that the Coop be fined until it builds a larger loading platform...