Word: china
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...countries, Dr. Mott was elected General Secretary, a position which he has held ever since. In that capacity he made an extensive tour of the world, 1895 to 1897, during which he studied carefully the academic life of the different nations and founded the Student Movements of India, China, Japan, and Australia. In recognition of this world-Wide work in behalf of students, Yale University conferred upon him the degree of M. A. in 1899. After this first tour of the world, Dr. Mott recorded and condensed his impressions of the different countries visited into his book "Strategic Points...
...Mott was appointed a member of the American Commission to Russia headed by Elihu Root, and because of his recent return from this field he will have much to tell concerning the present situation in Russia. He was offered the ambassadorship to China by President Wilson, but he refused the post because of his important work in connection with soldiers. The University will be the only college in the country at which Dr. Mott will speak in the nation wide campaign which he is making for the Red Triangle War Work...
...announcement of Secretary Lansing that the United States had concluded a treaty with Japan on the subject of China will be welcomed by all as tending to remove the distrust and lack of confidence between the two nations. The policy of the Open Door, inaugurated by Secretary Hay at the time of the Boxer Rebellion has now been brought to a successful conclusion, for Japan has at last declared that she will in no way impair the sovereignty of China, nor limit the right of free and open trade on the part of all nations. In return for this...
...speaking for the foreign students, compared the protection of France over the United States in its infancy with the latter's care for China in its present inexperience. "We students look up to this evening's speakers as children to grown-up men. So does the young republic of China look up to its sister, or rather its aunt-republic...
...food and coal, will have to be settled. But the conference will do much more than this. Pressing diplomatic and political problems demand immediate settlement and mutual understanding. The Russian project of an allied declaration affirming the Russian resolutions concerning the independence of Poland, the Balkan problem, and China is one of the most important...