Word: koo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first matter on the agenda will be a stiff test of the new President's power. The accredited Ministers to China resident in Peking protested last week against Foreign Secretary Wellington Koo's reply to their note of last August (TIME, Aug. 20, Oct. 8), wherein he stated that the bandit episode of last May was not directed primarily against foreigners. The Diplomats renewed their demands on the Chinese Government and stated...
...Wellington Koo, Acting Foreign Minister and present nominal chief of China (while the Tuchuns [War Lords] are fighting over the vacant Presidency), replied to the August note of the foreign Diplomatic Corps, which demanded damages, guarantees and sanctions (TIME, Aug. 20) for the bandit outrage which took place near Tsinan in Shantung last...
...property. Without foreign coercion, the note said, the Chinese Government is punishing responsible officials and making every effort to suppress brigandage. The scheme for railway police, put forward by the Diplomats in their note under the head of guarantees, was criticized principally because of its inadequacy. Said Dr. Koo: "The Government trusts that through a series of new measures recently adopted relative to the reorganization of railway police, the suppression of brigandage and better protection for foreigners' lives and property rights, foreigners in China will enjoy added security throughout the country...
...Wellington Koo, Acting Foreign Minister (in name the present ruler of China, because there is no President, only a fragment of a Cabinet, no Prime Minister, no Parliament and no likelihood of there being one), received a note from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking on the bandit incident of last May.* The note was signed by the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba. The imposing document was delivered at the Chinese Foreign Office by Senhor Frei tas, Portuguese Minister to China and doyen of the Diplomatic Corps...
...controversy (TIME, Aug. 6) between Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Foreign Minister, and M. Yoshizawa, Japanese Minister to Peking, came to an end when the latter presented a copy of his credentials to the Foreign Office, retaining the original for the next President, when elected...