Word: cablese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chile and Peru, despairing of ever holding a satisfactory plebiscite under these circumstances, appealed to the U. S. for mediation (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923, et seq.). As a result, first General Pershing and then General Lassiter were despatched to try and hold an impartial plebiscite. General Pershing returned broken in...
Despatches from Bucharest announced that the long heralded Roumanian general elections resulted last week in a three to one government majority. Cables from non-Roumanian cities reported, as usual, that the Roumanian government had exercised the most inhuman violence against Opposition candidates, that at least one such candidate?a priest...
Civilians Up! The military triumvirate which has administered Ecuador since last July, announced last week that the government has been returned to civilian hands. Meagre cables carried no details.
Gradually authority asserted itself. Gradually, the General's personal likeableness was felt. Politicians Quezon and Osmena, furious because of the diminished power of their rhetoric, could not prevent it. So they began to flood the cables with anti-Wood gossip. They made local scenes which in far off Washington looked...
For some months John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U.S. Minister to China at Peking, has been consistently chagrined to discover that the Chinese political and military situation is in such a state of perpetual flux that whatever news he cables to Washington stands about one chance in ten of being pertinent...