Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thousands of women and children deluded into peril by the White hope of General Wrangel, he succored. His was the first balm to heal the wounds of fire at Smyrna. Grimly he protected U. S. interests at Lusanne conferences. And last year he was the first diplomat to call on Mustafa Kemal, President of New Turkey...
...These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman. The Love of Kandahar: Romeo and Juliet among the haughty, feudmaking Afghans. They...
...called to Paris to consult with the Government. Lyautey, who is 71, has been one of the builders of the French Colonial Empire. At one time he pacified Madagascar and even before the War, was Resident General in Morocco, where he has shown that he is as much a diplomat as a military man. It is likely that the great task of organizing the last few week intensive offenses before the winter sets in is to be placed on the younger shoulders of Marshal Petain and General Naulin. On the fate of their efforts depends whether or not it will...
General Pershing, punctilious President of the Commission, patted both Chile and Peru on the back in language that might have caused a professional diplomat's cheeks to suffuse with fiery shame. Urbanities over, he came soldierly to the point...
Experts accompanying the delegation were: J. B. Vincent, administrator of the Treasury; J. Warland, director of the public debt; René van Crombrugge, diplomat; André Terlinden, dlrecteur de la Sociôté National de Credit a I'lndustrie; Robert Silvercruys, secretary-general to the delegation...