Word: stimsonisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Far Eastern sky flaming as red as the sunburst of the Japanese flag, President Hoover, looking worn and worried, summoned Secretaries Stimson of State, Hurley of War and Adams of the Navy for a White House Council. With them hurried General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations, and William Richards Castle Jr., Undersecretary of State. Dr. Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, brought along maps of China, laid them out in the Lincoln Study. The President and his advisers hunched over them, talked...
...Juana, Mexico, Feb. 2--Leaving for San Francisco in hour stop none your business what doing Tia Juana stop wire fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments...
...Shocking indictment!" cried U. S. Secretary of State Stimson after reading the report prepared 17 months ago by a League of Nations commission investigating Liberia. What shocked Statesman Stimson more than financial troubles, insanitary conditions or administrative incompetence was the Commission's discovery that the Republic, founded as a refuge for American freed slaves, was practicing slavery itself...
...took the post of chairman of the board (see p. 11). Banker Dawes, who had already resigned as Ambassador to Great Britain, resigned also as No. 1 U. S. delegate to the Geneva Arms Conference. To Geneva will go no less an official than Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...
Foreign Minister Yoshizawa's first official duty was to proffer yet another explanation. He answered Secretary Stimson's note of Jan. 7 which invoked the Kellogg anti-war pact and the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing China's integrity. Other nations failed notably to back the Stimson stand, but Kenkichi Yoshizawa returned a soft answer: Japan would never, never dream of annexing Manchuria, and as for the policy of the "Open Door" in China, the Japanese Government promised to maintain it "in so far as they can secure...