Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were stirring scenes at the examination of Mr. Blaine yesterday. The ex-Secretary carried everything before him, and used harsh words with Mr. Belmont in regard to the latter's construction of certain acts in his foreign policy...
...Foreign: England has been implored to mediate between Egypt and Abssynia to prevent war. - France will not contribute towards the expense of making an inland sea of the Desert of Sahara. - Direct telegraphic communication between Germany and the United States was opened Saturday. - The London Observer says there is reason to believe that before the end of this week all the American suspects imprisoned in Ireland will have left the country...
...Hurlburt appeared before the foreign affairs committee yesterday, and defended the record of his dead brother, the late minister to Peru. Ex-Secretary Blaine will be examined Monday...
...Foreign. A recent circular by Mr. Clifford Lloyd in regard to the duty of self-protection in Ireland was the cause of unusual warmth of expression in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. Sexton insisted on Mr. Forster causing its withdrawal. - More serious anti-Jewish riots have occurred in Russia with loss of life and of much property. - In Russia an imperial order has been issued prohibiting military men from publicly delivering political speeches...
...seem properly introduced into a literary journal." Taste and zeal truly robust! How the pallid young collegian of today shrinks aghast at such a programme of literary diversion. And then the editors, speaking through the young Edward Everett, say out bravely and patriotically (this was in July, 1810): "The foreign transactions of the last four years. nay, the last three months, the confiscation of American shipping in the ports of the continent, a hundred years ago would have arrayed Europe. . . .Morals and religion have suffered with the civil rights of man, and all their institutions have been disregarded and violated...