Word: koo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League Council chair while Mr. Matsuoka talked, sat President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. Once or twice Lord Lytton reddened as the Japanese diplomat gave the Lytton Report the courteous lie direct. With head thrown back China's Smart Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo stared at the ceiling until Mr. Matsuoka sat down and the council recessed...
When the Council re-convened it waited 20-minutes for China's Dr. Koo, while Chinese underlings explained to newshawks that "in-the Orient" such tardiness is "a sign of grave dissatisfaction." Unimpressed, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and French War Minister Paul-Boncour frankly dozed while Dr. Koo spoke for 90 minutes, threatening to revive China's boycott of Japanese goods, sarcastically observing. "If we believed everything the Japanese delegate told us we would be forced to believe that meek Japan is being devoured by ferocious China!" and hurling this challenge to the Council, "The time...
...Hitchy koo, hitchy koo, hitchy koo...
Speaking in the Large Room of the Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon, Dr. T. Z. Koo, vice president of the World's Student Christian Federation, outlined the fundamental causes of the Manchurian problem. One of the most important causes of the present crisis, Dr. Koo declared, is the presence of three different railroad systems in the region, a Japanese line, running approximately North and South, a Russian road, running East and West, and a Chinese system, built in the last ten year, which has lines over most of the territory of Manchuria. The establishment of this Chinese road...
...little more study of the problems of the world under world-known figures such as John R. Mott, Dr. T. Z. Koo, Kirby Page, and others, would make us citizens of more vision, perhaps, but of less ignorance and lack of interest. Daniel B. Dorman...