Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally, that any abatement of France's claim on Germany must be met by a corresponding abatement of the English and American claims on France. If Mr. Baldwin can unravel this tangle or can cut this Gordian knot, he will rank as the greatest statesman--or the greatest diplomat--of the twentieth century...
...Ruhr The little seed of peace, given by Herr Hugo Stinnes to Premier Mussolini in Italy nearly a month ago, sown by Mussolini and Jaspar in a subsequent conference at Milan, and watered with assiduous care by M. Loucheur, unofficial diplomat of French industry, and Premier Theunis of Belgium, has at length pushed its first leaves through the earth...
Died. Willis G. (" Bill ") Wiser, 64, campus cop at Yale University since 1894. Author as well as diplomat, his books include Yale Memories (1915), Nonsense Verses (1922) and several on religious subjects...
...minor characters are broadly marked: Dinwiddie, cynical and gouty, representative of a past generation; Jane Oglethorpe, powerful, clear-thinking old dowager; Gora Dwight, successful novelist; Hohenhauer, Austrian diplomat...
...Nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal has as his representative at the present conference at Lausanne, the general Ishmet Pasha. Now Ishmet's great usefulness lies not so much in the distinction of his services,--though they have been many and great, Allah is witness! for he is a trained diplomat and his recent victories over the Greeks in a military way are credited to strategy of the highest order,--but his greatest usefulness at the conference, from the Turkish point of view at least, lies in the fact that he is almost stone deaf. His hearing, writes a correspondent...