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...answer to Marine inaction was being formulated in Washington by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. The Hoover Administration was deciding to underplay rather than overplay its military strength in Central America. Five days after the slaughter of the nine U. S. citi- zens, Secretary Stimson bluntly instructed U. S. diplomats and consular agents in Nicaragua as follows...
...rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman, telegraphed urgently to the White House from New Orleans. When Secretary Stimson announced withdrawal, Standard officials in New Orleans expressed "profound disappointment," predicted that Nicaraguan bandits would now dare greater depredations...
April 13-Radio broadcast of President Hoover's address at the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington; at 10.30 a. m., E. S. T. April 14-Pan-American Day. Radio addresses beginning at 12.30 p. m. from Washington by President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and Ambassador Tellez of Mexico. April 26-Shift to Daylight Saving Time in many a U. S. town & city. April 29-President & Mrs. Hoover's dinner to the King & Queen of Siam (see below); at the White House. Foreign News...
...plans for a vacation in southern Europe to the extent of getting off the Leviathan at Southampton and going up to London? Would he tactfully explain to the British Government, which acted as "honest broker" between France and Italy in their recent naval agreement (TIME, March 9), that Mr. Stimson and President Hoover think this agreement is quite all right but wish to avoid the battle royal which would ensue if the U. S. Senate were asked to approve it? Would Senator Morrow, in short, tell the British to tell the French and Italians that the U. S. would like...
Promptly the spry little man from New Jersey radioed back his hearty willingness to help. He worked under Chairman Stimson of the U. S. Delegation at the London Naval Conference last year (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930, et seq.). In the opinion of many observers he was "by far the most able member of the U. S. Delegation and the only one who played fair with the press...