Stimson

[stim-suhn]

noun

1. Henry L(ewis), 1867–1950, U.S. statesman: secretary of war 1911–13, 1940–45; secretary of state 1929–33.

Example Sentences

“He has been able to bring about a broader geostrategic reset,” said Asfandyar Mir, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a foreign-affairs think tank.

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“It would be really helpful to accumulate hard currency, which is not a minor advantage for Argentina,” said Benjamin Gedan, an Argentina expert and director of the Stimson Center’s Latin America program.

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It's also received a significant amount of support - and equipment - from China, which has increasingly intervened to protect its economic interests in the country, according to think tank the Stimson Centre.

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“No U.S. policy change on Taiwan will happen overnight,” said Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center.

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In response to the devastation caused by the “conventional” bombing campaign against Japan, including the burning to death of as many as 130,000 people in Tokyo in a single night in March 1945, Secretary of War Henry Stimson warned that, if such attacks continued, “we might get the reputation of outdoing Hitler in atrocities.”

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