Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where are the leaders?" asks the foreign diplomat...
Died. Oscar Solomon Straus, 76, merchant, politician, diplomat, philanthropist; in Manhattan...
...Colonel Edward Mandell House, perhaps the most astute "diplomat without portfolio" that the U. S. has produced. As such he was welcomed to Jerusalem in behalf of the Palestine Zionist Executive † feted, shown over the new Zionist suburb of Hadar Ha' carmel. Then he rushed out to Nazareth with many another...
Venizelos freed the island of Crete, his birthplace, from Turkish dominion and brought it under Greek rule (1890-1909). He organized the Balkan League, which thrust Turkey back from considerable European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...
Written on July 2, 1816, the letter accompanied some of Coleridge's manuscripts which he sent for criticism to one of his friends, the Right Honorable John Hookham Frere, a noted English diplomat and author of humorous poetry, famous for his translations of Aristophanes. The manuscripts sent to Frere included the first volume and a part of the second of Coleridge's work, "My Literary Life", as well as his "Sibylline Leaves", the latter being a collection of his poems, which, as he writes, he "dared consent to be known as of his own will as well as authorship...