Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saint-Jean-de-Luz, elegant village on the Atlantic Coast of France near gaudy Biarritz* had news, if few visitors, last week. A villa, said this one to that one, had been leased by the U. S. embassy at Paris for the use of Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg next summer...
...Although I have not given Secretary Kellogg's statement careful study, it seems to be very fair in its statement of America's attitude. Of course, the United States will have to protect its citizens in China, as it is doing in Nicaragua; but it will be a different job in China."-Sir Esme Howard, Ambassador of His Brittanic Majesty...
That, in effect, is what Mr. Kellogg wrote. It was generally agreed that while a Woodrow Wilson might have been more eloquent, no Secretary of State could have written better sense...
Next day, however, Mr. Kellogg said something original-something more than Sir Austen had been willing to say. He said the U. S. would consider a diplomatic China to exist if the chief contending factions would agree on a joint delegation to represent China. This was a great advance, but Mr. Kellogg did not put it in writing, and there is no immediate likelihood that the Chinese factions will agree...
...Secretary then informed reporters that he could tell them nothing more because it took so long to decode Admiral Williams' messages that before one could be decoded another arrived. One report, when finally decoded, was found so terrifying that Mr. Kellogg withheld it from the public to avoid undue alarm...