Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would you be so good as to print a note correcting this error at your convenience? -THAYER HOBSON...
These omissions of precaution may seem purely negative: but a basic and positive error was committed when the U. S. and British delegations were given their instructions in different units of measure. The U. S. Administration formulated its instructions in terms of "tons" or "total tonnage"; whereas the British Government stated its demands in terms of "individual ships" or "numbers of ships." The ensuing and inevitable confusion was as much to be expected as though the Parley had been about "fruit," with one antagonist able to speak only in "bushels" and the other instructed solely in terms of "kinds...
Since one ,or the other Chief Delegate must have been in error, observers who sought to be impartial had to set up some arbitrary standards by which to judge...
...want to stress again the fact that you committed a very grave error in geography when you defined as the Basque country the southwest part of France. You failed to mention those Basques residing in Spanish territory from time immemorial, and who before Premier-Dictator Primo de Ribera came into power had many special powers and privileges which are called in Spanish "fueros." The Basques in Spain occupy quite a large territory called "las provincias vascon English, the Basque provinces, is one of these Basques...
...Latin American comment which was not more than typically censorius appeared in the leading newspaper of Mexico City, Excelsior: "May President Coolidge sleep peacefully after the assassination of 300 Nicaraguans who committed the error of defending their country, violated by an invader...