Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Ishii, ex-Foreign Minister, has twice visited the U. S. in an official capacity: once in 1907, when he conferred with President Roosevelt on problems arising from anti-Japanese disturbances; again, in 1917, when he headed the special mission sent by the Japanese Government to the U. S. which ended in the Lansing-Ishii agreement. It was he who was largely responsible for securing Japan's acceptance of the invitation to the Washington Arms Conference...
...Government program that we shall bring into Parliament on Tuesday. It will be only a message from the President of the Republic. That is our only mission...
Then came the War. M. Caillaux was observed on the boulevards sporting an Army paymaster's uniform. He became the centre of unpleasant incidents at Vichy and in Argentina, where he was sent on a diplomatic mission. The end came in Italy in 1916, where he said that France would not hold out beyond the Spring of 1917, that France must conclude a separate peace and then an alliance with Germany. Premier Briand wired
...this general analysis is true there can be no doubt whatsoever that the newspaper world is admirably fulfilling its mission. Yet one hesitates to accept Dr. Lee's dictum. It takes little investigation to prove that publicity's sought and cherished, rather than regarded with that horror which usually attaches itself to the wages of sin. And should this definite philosophy be firmly fixed in the public mind, one might draw the regrettable conclusion that the President of the United States and the Prince of Wales are the most sinful of men. To reward sinners with fame seems the very...
...Thomas B. Hohler, British Minister to Hungary, was appointed to proceed upon a special mission to Mexico to report on the political situation. This is a possible forerunner of British recognition...