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President Calvin Coolidge appeared to Nicaraguans last week to have assumed frankly and even conscientiously the role of Dictator in Nicaraguan affairs. The President's personal representative in Nicaragua (TIME, April 18), one-time Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, conferred with the leaders of both warring Nicaraguan factions and meted out to them peace terms...
...been consistently in such close harmony with U. S. nationals that he obtained last March a loan of $1,000,000 from the Manhattan firms of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. Therefore, last week it was only necessary for Presidential Representative Stimson to be firm with the Liberal faction of Nicaragua, whose President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, has been recognized as President of Nicaragua by the Mexican Government and has been declared to be the rightful holder of this office by the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William E. Borah...
Accordingly, Mr. Stimson conferred with the Liberal military leader, General Jose Maria Moncada last week at Tipitapa, while some 50 U. S. marines stood guard. Next day General Moncada made public the following letter...
...Signed) HENRY L. STIMSON...
Stream-crosser Stimson was born in Manhattan in 1867, is a graduate of Yale (1888) and Harvard Law School, is entitled to wear the Phi Beta Kappa key. He was unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1910), was Secretary of War under President Taft (1911-1913). As Colonel of the 31st Field Artillery he saw World War service in France...