Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghtons. It started by Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton being received in audience by Queen Mary. The U. S. Ambassador also attended the usual Pilgrims' dinner, where he did not make the usual speech. Said he: "Anglo-American friendship is not a tender plant. . . . I sometimes wonder if it were not well that it be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory...
Houghton surprised them all by refusing to "dig up" again the hardy plant of Anglo-American friendship which would flourish if it "be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory. . . . You will not expect me to refer to 'hands across the sea,' " or even to "the language of Shakespeare, which neither of us uses...
...Tokyo Kohumin-commented. Said the first: "[Increased] fortification of Hawaii may justly be taken as an indication of the Americans' ill will toward Japan." Said the second: "Our nationals now realize that the disarmament conference at Washington was a secret plot between the two groups of the Anglo-Saxons to weaken the fighting strength of the Japanese Navy. Hawaii would afford a splendid base for American naval operations, as Singapore would for the English...
...Apparently, officers may enter and search a man's house without a warrant. If so, this does away with conventional Anglo-Saxon red tape...
...secret inter-Anglo-Saxon plot...