Word: chaos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels. They and all Siam, especially Royal Bangkok, mourned the death of a young medical interne at the American Mission Hospital. No ordinary student he, but a superlatively intelligent one, for he came from a superlatively intelligent house and was none other than Somdet Chao Fa (Prince) Mahidol Adulyadej, brother of His Majesty the King of Siam, heir presumptive to the throne of Siam, Harvard graduate, onetime M. I. T. student...
...White House last week went Dr. Wu Chao-chu to present to President Hoover his letter of credence as Chinese Minister (Nationalist Government). Dr. Wu expressed his pleasure at finding as President "a statesman who has intimate personal knowledge of China through long residence in the country and close contact with the people." The new Minister's father, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, represented China in Washington before the 1912 revolution...
...Alfred Sze has so quaint a name that most people picked him first out of the shuffle. Though his parents called him Chao-chi, he has been Alfred, and even "Al." since he edited The Cornellian at Cornell (circa...
During the week the Chinese representative to the League of Nations, irascible Chao Hsin-chu, packed his bags at Geneva and set out for faction-torn China, leaving no one empowered to represent his country before the League...
...Chao-tsin, Chinese representative to the League of Nations, deposited with the League last week a copy of a note despatched to British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, stating that Great Britain has violated Article X of the League Covenant, and the Washington treaties by sending troops to China...