Word: friendliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week showed the perfectly normal reaction of a U. S. statesman who has been called "unfriendly." He insisted that he was friendly, that he had acted from the friendliest possible motives in reminding Russia and China by identic notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight. The retort of Moscow's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov that the U. S. note was an unfriendly act seemed to cause Statesman Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply...
...withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung are completed, we must despatch our own best soldiers to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists there. . . . Since we are now awaiting the arrival of the new Japanese Minister [to China, M. Yoshizawa], I suggest that he be greeted in the friendliest manner possible and every effort made to reach an accord...
...broad back upon the Russian Soviet Government which, two years ago, was furnishing him with most of his money, ammunition and supplies. It is an historic paradox that the Nationalist Party, which conquered China with Russian propaganda and Russian gold, is now absolutely estranged from Moscow and on the friendliest terms with U. S. business...
...allegedly without much foundation, that he is a direct descendant of the Biblical King David. With equal lack of foundation Dame Rumor has several times had him engaged to Miss Megan Lloyd George, younger daughter of the famed War Prime Minister, with whom Sir Philip is still on the friendliest terms, despite the fact that he is a Conservative and Mr. George a Liberal...
...reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative, and are even inclined on occasion to feel a distinct sensation of guilt. No doubt these apostles of individual meditation have the friendliest of intentions. But they forget that even a smile under some circumstances may drive a man to madness and that their innocent promenade could possibly have any associations with water dripping with fatal regularity from an Inquisition tank to the head of a victim condemned to die by slow torture...