Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International [world Communist propaganda bureau with headquarters in Moscow] appears to be so far from conducting such activities that I was amused to find the other day that only two out of the five principal officials in charge had any definite idea where Nicaragua was. . . . The statement of Mr. Kellogg contains naive untruths. . . . He is only following the example of the British Tories who counterfeited a letter supposed to have been written by a former director...
King Pins Turn. To Mexicans it seemed last week that U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg reversed his Mexican policy twice and that President Coolidge gave his attitude toward Mexico a ponderous half-turn. The Secretary of State and the President began the week as exponents of the theory that there was a Bolshevist hobgoblin in Mexico and that the U. S. should say "BOO!" When the booing of this theory had subsided, Secretary Kellogg expressed himself upon a resolution introduced into the U. S. Senate by Senator Joseph T. Robinson calling for arbitration of the points at issue between...
Thought Mexicans: "For Mr. Kellogg, this is a remarkably unequivocal statement. He evidently wants to arbitrate. He seems to have decided that we are not Bolsheviks, and so beyond the pale of lawful arbitration." Straightway the Mexican Foreign Office issued an official statement to the press: "The Mexican Government declares that it is ready to accept in principle that its difficulties with the United States should be decided by arbitration...
Meanwhile Secretary Kellogg visited the White House. Next day "The White House Spokesman," which even Mexicans know is Washington patois for "President Coolidge," spoke. He said something to the general effect that there had been a complete misunderstanding of the Administration's attitude toward Mexico. The President, it seemed, had turned once with the Secretary to the extent of experiencing a change of heart about Bolshevism in Mexico which was now beside the point instead of being the point. But President Coolidge had not turned with Mr. Kellogg to the extent of wanting to arbitrate. Mr. Kellogg must thus...
...Hand. A long coded radio from Vice Admiral Charles S. Williams to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg caused that statesman abruptly to change his mind as follows: He had instructed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U. S. Minister at Peking, to hasten to Washington, hoping to delay action in the China crisis while he was in transit. Mr. MacMurray had duly set sail but when he reached Seoul, Korea last week, he was ordered back to Peking, went...