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...Japan has expended over $5,000,000 in propagandizing America," exclaimed Dr. Frank W. Chinglun Lee, onetime Foreign minister of China, now special envoy to America and adviser to the Chinese legation, in an animated address delivered last Saturday before a gathering of the Chinese Student Clubs of Harvard and M.I.T. Patriotic zeal shone from Dr. Lee's wan features as he urged upon the gathering the need for unity and action. "China does not want war." he said. "Every move she has made since September 18, 1931 indicates her desire to cooperate with other nations for the peace...
...Emperor of Japan, illustrious "Son of Heaven" He had spent the day writing diplomatic notes to President Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XI, King George V, Premier Benito Mussolini and other foreign devils." Each note will be personallydelivered by Manchukuo's new Special Diplomatic Envoy, General Ting Shih-yuan who also had a brand new trousseau last week. On their missions abroad Minister Hsieh and General Ting will speak of a peaceful, orderly, independent Manchukuo over which presides "The Last of the Manchu Emperors," spindly, weak-eyed Henry...
...small loan from John Pierpont Morgan. The story goes that in the latter's library Lord Reading boldly asked for a billion dollars. Banker Morgan appeared mildly surprised, suggested that the Allies accept half a billion. Lord Reading returned to the U. S. as special envoy, borrowed billions more. Upon the retirement of Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice he became Ambassador at the special request of the U. S. State Department...
Norman Hapgood, onetime editor of Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Hearst's International, Envoy Extraordinary &; Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark under President Wilson, dramatic critic, author, turned himself into a radio announcer, to advertise the soups of Columbia Conserve Co., famed for its conversion by the Hapgood clan into a social ized industry where employes own 51% of the common stock (TIME, July...
Incidentally, in his defense may I state that he was aware that the President of the U. S. had offered me a real Ambassadorship when I voluntarily retired from 26 years' international service as U. S. Envoy and Minister and Director General of the Pan American Union, and that I had declined because I did not have the financial resources to accept...