Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger branch of the Catholic Howard family, which has during hundreds of years produced the Dukes of Norfolk. On and off Sir Esme has been in the Brtish Diplomatic Corps for 38 years and is therefore a professional diplomat. For that very reason his appointment caused some comment in official circles, for it has been the almost invariable practice of the British Government to appoint men conspicuous in some other field of life. Being a Catholic and popular in Spain, it was felt that his position there, as Ambassador to the Court of His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso...
...acquittal of 20-year-old Mlle. Germaine Berthon of shooting Marius Plateau, an editor of L' Action Française (TIME, Dec. 31), received the following comment from the Paris press...
...Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, accompanied by his private secretary, M. Miachalopoulis, left Paris for Marseilles, and subsequently sailed from that port to Athens. He declined to make any comment upon his return to Greece, or upon his reasons for reversing his decision not to return...
General Wood, who had been visiting Java on invitation of the Dutch Government, returned to Manila. He declined to comment on the Frear resolution. The Dutch Governor of Java, Fock, will visit the Philippines in March. The object of the mutual visits of the Governors is to exchange knowledge of the art of colonial Government...
...significance of such a step is not apparent. Swaraj is a political movement which aims at achieving Indian independence by means of a policy of noncoöperation as opposed to violence. Taraknath Das,* in his book India in World Politics,† apart from comment on the British Raj which is neither equitable, honest nor impartial, sums up compendiously the aspiration of the Swaraj. It is not to be wondered at that the London Daily Telegraph, alluding to the action of Lord Lytton, said that "the event will doubtless be noted by the future historian as a landmark...