Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is such hope it is dim today. Year ago, when Japan seized Chinchow. 90 miles from Shanhaikwan, U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson dashed off note after stern note. Last week news of Shanhaikwan's fall was brought to "Woodley," Mr. Stimson's home, just as he was tendering a reception to the diplomatic corps. Over cakes & tea Japan's new fait accompli was discussed-but nothing more...
Just a personal note of to thank you for the information in your current issue about Howard Scott and Technocracy...
Since U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson is a man of the mysterious West whose mental processes seem more outlandish to the East every time he sends a note, Japanese could half fear and half believe last week that Washington is leagued with Moscow and Nanking. Staggering would be such an alliance: the world's largest nation (Russia) plus the most populous (China) j)lus the richest (U. S.), and all against Japan...
...proposed again to seek the co-operation of his successor who, after their White House meeting of last November, had already refused to support his methods. Between the White House and the Executive Mansion at Albany a four-day exchange of telegrams, each as coldly polite as any diplomatic note from nation to nation, charted the course of the disagreement. Final statements to the Press furnished the cracker of ill-feeling that ruptured all chance of joint action. Excerpts from the Hoover-Roosevelt correspondence...
...sensation. Last seen in a Paris jail after a U. S. woman missed a $100 American Express check, Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), 42, all-time amateur impostor, ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have just landed. Michael R." Talking fast in his baa-baa Oxford accent, with the manner of a man born with a gold spoon in his cheek, he began a new chapter of the famed Gerguson-Romanoff legend...