Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At the Hotel de Ville in Paris, Mr. Hughes said: "We meet at a time of distress and unrest, which followed as the natural result of the great upheaval and economic dislocations incident to the War. We know there is no cure for these conditions save as we may find...
In the Archepiscopal Palace at Malines, Belgium, Mr. Hughes received from Cardinal Mercier a degree of Doctor of Laws from Louvain University, and said: "My visit to your country will leave a very deep impression on me."
U. S. Ambassador Houghton rushed back to Germany in order to take charge of receiving Mr. Hughes, although he had been home, on vacation, only 200 hours.
Said the Paris Matin: "Mr. Hughes' public utterances have been confined to safe philosophical reflections on the moral beauty of a lawyer's career."
But the fact remains that the two American Secretaries, Mellon and Hughes, did have quiet little private meetings with Ramsay MacDonald, with Doumergue, with Herriot, with Millerand, with Poincaré, with Theunis, with Paul Hymans, with Chancellor Marx and other men who rule the destinies of Europe. And it is...