Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disarmament. Anglo-U. S. friendship is a sturdy plant. Let us desist pulling it up to inspect the roots. England is as wholly committed to disarming as the U. S. Let nations simply understand and respect one another's practical requirements.?Sir Arthur Willert of the British Foreign Office, long U. S. correspondent cf the London Times...
Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...
...Institute opened with a greeting from President Coolidge, who said that he had heard of the Institute's work and believed that true friendship would result from mutual understanding issuing from frank discussion. Then Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,* President of Stanford University and chairman of the Institute, predicted that the U. S. would realize that though people of other races are different they are not inferior, and predicted that the quota system of immigration would eventually be extended to peoples of Asiatic countries. Sessions of the conference were to continue until July 29. The Pacific Institute can discuss conditions...
...fellowmen and brothers, by asking their forgiveness for the harm I have unintentionally committed, by retracting so far as lies within my power the offensive charges laid at their door by these publications, and by giving them the unqualified assurance that henceforth they may look to me for friendship and good will...
...guest I offered to weigh him on the baggage scales. What a figure he made the arrow jump to! It exceeded the maximum weight authorized for a piece of passenger train baggage; we burst into cries of admiration. Next I weighed myself; and then in token of friendship we weighed ourselves standing on the scales together, hand in hand. This would have made a fine picture for the papers." Author Raucat's book? laughing, ironic, fantastic, sad?mingles the gayety of two nations; should excite the admiration of a third...