Word: diplomat
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...play deals with the attempt of a European diplomat of Jewish birth to unite his people and lead them back to Palestine. He is hampered by lack of money, due to the indifference of the rich Jewish bankers and the petty dissensions among his followers, who at the end, defeat him and his cause. Lack of funds compels him to abandon his pro- jected colony in Palestine and turn to the more accessible land of Africa. His followers, however, refuse to accept any substitution for the Promised Land, and at the very moment of his supposed triumph, turn against...
...SEMINARY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. "The Secretary of State as a Diplomat." Mr. C. R. Hall. Sever...
...SEMINARY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. "The Secretary of State as a Diplomat." Mr. C. R. Hall. Sever...
...Owen Wister, the Musical Manager, an entertaining account of the occasion. Mr. Lindsay Swift '77 writes on the life of his classmate, Professor Edward Henry Strobel, late Adviser to the King of Siam. A sketch of the career of Bancroft Davis recalls the distinguished services of an older Harvard diplomat, especially in connection with the Geneva arbitration. Professor Lanman, and Professor Laing, of Chicago, pay tribute to the character and learning of the late Professor Minton Warren. Beside the usual reviews of books, Professor Hart's co-operative series of histories, "The American Nation," and Profesor Huntington's "Pulse...
Jean Jules Jusserand, "Professional Republican diplomat from youth, eminent man of letters, who chose his subjects from English social and literary history, Ambassador of France at Washington, to whom and through whom the American people would gladly express their obligation to the genius of the French people, under monarchy, empire and republic alike...