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...President would have dined first with statesman Stimson, No. 1 Cabinet Man, had he not been in London...
Laredo business languished. But freight cars had to be diverted to Brownsville and Eagle Pass. Governor Dan Moody appealed to Secretary of State Stimson, then to President Hoover himself. Texas Senators implored the President to do something. It was even suggested that President Hoover hold a long distance telephone conversation with Mexico's President Emilio Portes...
Another, earlier touch of levity was the insistence by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the U. S. delegation should land from their steamer in top hats, though two of them had started down the gangplank in soft headgear. "I feel rather like a Pilgrim father coming back to England," said Statesman Stimson, adding when correspondents did not seem to get his point, "My wife had two ancestors on the Mayflower." Another Stimson mot: "I have brought along my golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that...
...five principal U. S. delegates-Stimson, Adams, Reed, Robinson, Morrow-and their wives the Star said, "The men seem to be fatherly, homely folk and their wives motherly and even more homely." Lest it should be misunderstood, the Star added, for the benefit of visitors weak in the King's English, that "The connotation of 'homely' changes in crossing the Atlantic, and in England has of course no reference to facial appearance...
...instant reaction of Statesman Stimson and his colleagues was strongly in the negative, since capital ships have always been "the backbone of the U. S. Navy." They seemed to fear that Mr. MacDonald was trying to put them in the highly awkward position of being forced to defend the right of the U. S. to build the very biggest, most costly, most palpably menacing type of ship...