Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Hughes in a brief note to the Russian Government (transmitted via the U. S. consul at Reval, Esthonia) declared that the U. S. Government "is not proposing to barter away its principles" in negotiations for Russian recognition. He followed his note by publishing a set of instructions...
Senator Norris: "In all the records of the diplomatic service there was never such a blunt letter [as Mr. Hughes' note to Tchicherin] sent to another nation by the United States."
Senator Lodge: "Some things justify bluntness. I think Mr. Hughes was justified."
Nov. 8, 1916 ("Hughes elected"): "In the midst of the gravest crisis known to modern history, the United States is making a most dangerous political experiment. It is changing its government without knowing what new policies of government it has adopted, and it is trusting to blind luck to muddle...
"What it will all come to, no man is wise enough to see, least of all Mr. Hughes, who is only the nominal leader of forces that he can never control."