Word: hongkong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across the Yellow Sea-onetime Russian stronghold of Port Arthur. It was leased to Great Britain in 1898 to compensate for Russia's Port and Germany's Tsingtao...
China was represented by two speakers, one of them a graduate of Harvard. They were: V. K. Kwong '29, Hongkong, China; and S. L. Chang, Swatow, China, W. E. Esber '31, and J. M. Swigert '30 spoke for the University. The chairman of the program was professor of Government, A. N. Holcombe...