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...prestige of the Nationalist Government has recently been enhanced by visits to Nanking from the Japanese, British and French ministers accredited to Peking; and last week U. S. Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray followed their lead and began a tour through Nationalist territory...
...Antwerp School of Cartography." Professor Usher. Widener...
From Manhattan, the Radio Corporation of America sent the picture by radiogram to London. At London a print was made and sent by air mail to Antwerp, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris and Madrid; by express steamer to Alexandria (Egypt), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Montevideo (Uruguay...
...tourist among foreign art centres. After a restful week at sea, he despatches the Louvre in two trips of three hours each and says: "I could have done it in 20 minutes with spikes on!" So too through Rome, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, London. At last, duty done he embarks for home and another week's rest at sea. In short, the only period of that leisure which is so necessary to enjoyable contemplation of art is spent at sea where, usually, there is none...
...their several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray was looking out for troops to defend the Legation from possible captors of Peking...