Word: curzon
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...books, as their title indicates, are a history of British foreign policy from Lord Carmarthen to Lord Curzon (1783-1919), or from the time Britain can be said to have had a defined foreign policy up to the end of the Great War. On the period anterior to 1783 Sir Adolphus Ward, Master of Peter-house, Cambridge, has written a long introduction in which he has skilfully outlined the main considerations and salient characteristics of those early days. The work as a whole can, therefore, lay serious claim to being a complete review of the whole of British foreign policy...
...Federal projects in the District of Columbia, the British one is empowered to give advice to such provincial authorities as may ask for help in matters of city planning, public buildings, monuments. The King's Commission calls for two laymen, the first to hold office being Lords Curzon; and Crawford, both active patrons of art. A total of nine members is completed by the nomination of distinguished professional artists representing architecture, painting, sculpture...
When asked how the change would affect the foreign policy of the nation, Dr. Buell said, "The riddance of Lord Curzon and his 'Egyptian Temples' in the Foreign Office will be worth a great deal to the peace of Europe. The recognition of Russia will probably be one of MacDonald's first acts...
...January Honor List was a disappointing affair. It had been prophesied that the Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, would receive a dukedom, but nothing of the sort occurred...
...himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule are Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, whom he neither likes nor loves, and groups under...