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...Committeeman. "It has .this to do with it: they selected a man that no white man or black man in Georgia will stand for." The turning point came when Mr. Johnson presented a letter written by the late President Harding to C. Bascom Slemp saying it had been a blunder to recognize the Phillips faction instead of the Johnson faction. Mr. Johnson added that President Harding had told him last Summer: "That has been the blunder of my life. I'm going to set it right as soon as I get back from Alaska...
...Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and, we re-(Continued on Page 24) (Continued from Page 20) gret to have to say in fairness to others, the Japanese Ambassador. We may as well be frank about it. Mr. Hanihara unwittingly made an error, Mr. Hughes guilelessly made a blunder, and Senator Lodge made unwarranted use of both error and blunder...
...only reason for postponing the date of exclusion is to throw some sort of diplomatic sop, to permit the Japanese Government to save its face. Theoretically, the question over a date for Japanese exclusion is ridiculous; practically, it is serious. Undoubtedly Ambassador Hanihara when he committed the colossal diplomatic blunder of speaking about "grave consequences" if the bill were passed, spoke little but the truth. The essence of diplomacy is to appreciate the truth and keep it to oneself...
...welcoming banquet 150 prominent citizens were poisoned by the soup. At the next banquet, the new Archbishop drank the soup first. And ever since he has grown, quietly, in the respect of a strident community. No archdiocese is more efficiently run. Its head has never committed a public blunder. The youngest to graduate, the youngest to become Bishop, one of the youngest to become Archbishop, George Mundelein will be the youngest Cardinal in the sacred College. And Chicago is the first see west of the Alleghanies to have a Prince of the Church...
...British had gone ahead before the Turks could arrive on the scene, the campaign would not have ended in miserable failure for the British. That one blunder changed the course of the whole affair...