Word: lampson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China assumed that this order was what Japan and Old Etonian Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson had put over-that it was Japan's secret price for agreeing to evacuate. Raging mad, prominent Chinese sent telegrams from Peiping, Tientsin, Canton, Hankow and Shanghai demanding that the Chinese Government at Nanking resign, accusing its members of "betraying China...
...certain way of looking at the Sino-Japanese situation. This viewpoint approximated that of President Hoover and Secretary Stimson. Meanwhile at Shanghai, where the Japanese victory had become embarrassingly pyrrhic (see p. 16), worried Japanese generals, admirals and diplomats flocked around the British Minister, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, who was, of course, under orders from his chief, Sir John Simon...
Whampoa. With a Japanese war boat still lying in almost every Chinese port last week, numberless Chinese fled inland from their homes. Ten thousand fled from President Chiang's own Nanking. Then in Nanking arrived British Minister Sir Miles Lampson and U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson with his bride. Chinese who had fled at once came back. The Japanese war boats in the harbor would not fire, figured the Chinese, so long as there was any risk of hitting Sir Miles or the Johnsons, bride & groom...
...Oswald's only rival for the title "Britain's Hitler," Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson (TIME, July 8), head of the Blue Shirts, did not cross the floor to the Conservative benches with Sir Oswald. He did not have...
Medals for weight-putting and other feats of strength were won by Student Locker-Lampson at Eton and Cambridge; in 1898 he won the Prince Consort's Prize for German; in 1900 edited the Cambridge undergraduate Granta. Amateur theatricals were still his passion after he became a barrister and later Lieutenant-Commander...