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...them in universities or colleges. Next in number come men engaged in research apart from teaching, but it is noteworthy that the list includes 18 clergymen, 15 presidents of universities or colleges, 14 men engaged in editorial work, seven librarians, six physicians, four men in diplomatic or consular service, two members of Congress, two United States Senators, and a Prime Minister of Canada. There are also several high officials of important business organizations. It may fairly be inferred that the training for the Doctor's degree is not so narrowing as its critics have sometimes maintained. Or will these critics...
...time a number of consular and diplomatic officers appointed between the American republics consider their work in North or South America only as a stepping stone to a bright and merry social life in the older capitals of Europe. . . . The diplomatic butterflies might well be allowed to flit to the social centres...
...responsible authority speaking for the American Legation says that American officialdom in China has been abominably treated by the Washington Administration. Consular and diplomatic reports have furnished more than enough material to shape public opinion in America if the Government cared to face conditions honestly by giving out the information at its disposal...
...Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain tried to calm the Chinese by issuing a most conciliatory statement. He said that Britain is now ready to change the whole status of foreigners in China as follows: 1) Remodeling of the system ("extraterritoriality") whereby foreign malefactors in China have been tried before consular courts of their own nation. Britain now proposes that suits brought by Britons in China shall be tried by the Chinese courts; and suits brought against Britons shall be tried under Chinese law in the British consular courts. 2) "As regards Chinese taxation," said Sir Austen, "we are prepared...
...British Minister Miles Wedderburn Lampson arrived at Hankow just across the Yangtze. An anti-British strike which had impended at Hankow was called off. The Cantonese General Chiang Kai-shek and the Contonese Foreign Minister Dr. Eugene Chen received Minister Lampson in state, as well as Japanese and U.S. consular representatives...