Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Minister Wang represented China at the Paris Peace Conference, has been sent as Special Envoy to the U. S. and Soviet Russia, is a Yale B. A. 1911, and continues Managing Director of the great Liuhokou Coal Mines...
...Roman Catholic Church on parade, therefore, in Sydney last week. To fast-growing Sydney, largest city in Australia, capital of New South Wales, came many a priest, many a pilgrim. From Naples came Bonaventura Cardinal Cerreti, witty envoy of the Pope; from...
...Nationalist Government at Nanking has obtained as its Foreign Minister the able and versatile General Huang-Fu. Some five years ago he administered this same post with marked success for what is now the rival reactionary Government at Peking. Later the facile General served as Chinese envoy to Germany, and more recently he was Mayor of the Chinese settlement at Shanghai. Last week he quietly put forward the Nationalist claims for revision of China's "unequal treaties" with the Powers but displayed in his statements to the press a healthy consciousness of realities and a willingness to bide...
...excellent hockey and tennis player, the sleek garb and easy tongue of a society man. His English was almost entirely free from guttural impediments. His manner was extraordinarily flexible for a German of the old Junker caste. It fitted exactly the known record and professed aims of this envoy whom German Nationalists viewed with alarm for his descent, whom German Conservatives thought too young for so important a post, but whom German Democrats endorsed entirely and whom Foreign Minister Stresemann sent over despite all opposition...
...eyes by the death of certain U. S. Marines who were bent on armed enforcement of U. S. decrees in Nicaragua. Col. Lindbergh detoured 30 miles to avoid the battleground. He dropped from the sky into a thunderstorm of welcome. A huge banner billowed out the words "Envoy of Peace and Good Will from Coolidge." An excited restauranteur sprinkled champagne in the street over which he was to pass. National Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held a "sing song" for him in front of the U. S. Legation. He made one of his shortest speeches...