Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...use of relief funds to influence votes...
Stimson and Knox. In New Haven one night last week Henry Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft. Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover, laid down a line for U. S. foreign policy and defense: military conscription, shipments of planes and munitions to Great Britain, the use of the U. S. Navy to convoy shipments if necessary. It was an effective speech...
Another kind of war would be more likely. Cruisers, aircraft, submarines would use the main fleet as a floating base, raid Japan's trade and naval lanes (see map, pp. 14-15}. That would be a long, negative and costly war, would require a stupendous naval effort. If it chose, the U. S. could certainly make the effort, in the end would probably...
...wage a rearguard action. Originator of that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced every stage of Japanese aggression in China...
...inter-ocean canal for navy use...