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Once, communists invaded the U. S. Consulate-General at Genoa and ordered the flag half-masted in deference to the funeral of a Red rioter. The Consul wired for instructions. The Ambassador replied in four words: "Keep the Flag flying." To a sophisticated generation this might seem melodramatic, affected. For Mr. Johnson it was the simple expression of a most passionate and unashamed patriotism. In the end it was the sneering young attaches and the hypercerebrated Latins who were stultified...
Following the instructions of his Chief, Prince Caetani hied him to Pittsburgh, there to take part in the simple funeral service held in an undertaker's chapel. Arrangements were made to ship the body to Italy and it was subsequently placed aboard the liner Duilio, bound for Genoa from Manhattan. At St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, a public service was held in memory of the great actress...
...weeks will be spent in Italy, making short stays at Genoa, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan. On the way to England, the party will stop for two days at Brussels. The remaining part of the trip will be spent in England. While in London. Mr. W. L. Roffey, the Dickens expert, will act as leader and unofficial host...
...American Commission to negotiate peace at Paris 1918-1919; a member of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919; a member of the legal section of the secretarist of the League of Nations since 1919; and legal advisor to the International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919 and in Genoa in 1920. Professor Hudson has also recently won second place in the Bok Peace Award Contest...
...Armaments Conference as a "resort to the noisy methods of a circus" and added that the Administration had "profaned Republican history ... by forsaking the soul of Abraham Lincoln for the spleen of Henry Cabot Lodge." Two months later he attacked the Administration for refusing to participate in the Genoa Economic Conference. In succeeding speeches he advocated the League of Nations, which, amon? issues, is his great and good friend. He spent two months abroad. Since returning, he has seized several occasions to speak against the Administration and for the League...