Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China is becoming more and more of a factor in international politics on account of her immense population and the possibilities of her heretofore unworked industrial and commercial wealth. It is the exploitation by foreign nations of just this wealth that China now fears. The problem of the American diplomat in China is to allay these fears by helping her to establish cooperative relations with the other nations, and by seeing to it that she gets a square deal. The college man who is looking forward to such a career should make a study of international law and Chinese history...
...small boy who offers to beat up the neighborhood and ends by accepting a couple of marbles in complete settlement. In this respect, the move is perhaps reminiscent of the French demands which caused temporary consternation at the Washington Conference, but proved to be only the French diplomat's method of requesting something much milder...
...Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though his part was considerably shortened it still gave Mr. Peters opportunity to present the Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with which many an actor sets on some quantity of the barren spectators to laugh...
...plain language, the nations are thought to mistrust each other even more than do the diplomats. Harding has said that while he favors approximate disarmament, the United States must not render itself helpless by disarming in advance of other nations. That is the diplomat's view. The supposed attitude of the various peoples is indicated by the feeling in political circles that secrecy is essential to any advance. It looks like a case of one hundred per cent suspicion all around. But surely if there is any real desire in the world for peace and disarmament, the nations will...
...been considered of uncompromising temperament in political differences and that he could not assume an uncompromising attitude and be successful with the British foreign office as it is now constituted. Thus, although deserving of praise in many ways, there are many misgivings over his fitness as a diplomat, which make it doubtful whether he will be able to equal the standard set by his predecessor in diplomatic circles...