Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At the outbreak of War, the State Department sent him to Paris as special assistant to the U. S. ambassador there. He was placed in charge of the German and Austro-Hungarian civilian prisoners in France. In 1917 President Wilson made him Minister to the Netherlands, an important between-the...
"If I were in office now," said ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin last week with Cheshire-cat complacence, "everyone would be blaming me for this cotton strike!"
At first the Chinese Government's wiry little Foreign Minister, Dr. Cheng T'ing ("C. T.") Wang (Yale, 1911), vehemently asserted China's "right" to grab the C.E.R. The Treaty of 1924, he pointed out, provides that the Soviet railway personnel must not engage in Communist propaganda, a proviso often...
Japan throughout the week showed some reluctance to cooperate with the other Great Powers in applying diplomatic peace pressure. Plainly Prime Minister Hamaguchi would have preferred the role of Chief Mediator assumed, however modestly, by Statesman Stimson.
The Author. Able editor of the Paris Matin from 1905 to 1924, Henry de Jouvenel entered French politics actively via the Senate in 1921. He was made a delegate to the League of Nations, and in 1924 became Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts under Premier Poincaré. In 1925...