Word: cordialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This ceremonial visit served as an excellent curtain for a tremendous amount of dickering with European bigwigs. Swinging through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, France and Belgium, Dr. Kung was everywhere given the sort of excessively cordial reception he loves. This was because China's credit is better now than it has been for years and because Europe, notably Germany, desperately needs a market for exports. China's credit is currently high because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring...
...affecting greeting given me on may arrival was not a bad cordial people reflecting in may ways the character of their surroundings. I suppose our learned psychologists think more of glands than geography, but here is a people living on this lovely mountain slope, snow-rimmed Mt. Etna clear in the distance, the Mediterranean below; oranges, almonds, lemons and flowers of every variety growing in abundance--and nothing much more important to do but work their donkeys, have babies, and cheat Americans...
...send a delegate to the celebration, she will permit a member of her faculty, who may happen to be travelling in Europe at the time, to represent her in the capacity of official delegate. This stand is both logical and sane. Germany realizes that Harvard cannot enter into cordial relations with any educational institution controlled and oppressed by a government whose treatment of its educators has become notorious throughout the civilized world. At the same time the University will not offend an institution which, despite its Nazi taint, is justly celebrated through Europe. Thus, while Harvard cannot be said...
This was vexing to President Benes' far from cordial host, Premier Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Obviously 13-year-old King Peter does not yet count...
...firm voice which was broadcast to the world, the Pope bestowed a Latin benediction, an apostolic blessing, in which he said to his people: "I thank you for the sustaining strength of your prayers during my long illness." Then he returned to his apartments, accepted a restorative cordial from Dr. Milani and wept tears...