Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese hope of peace and understanding with the West is based upon our acknowledgment of Japan's divine mission and acceptance of what Japanese...
...Russian Revolution provided the great climax and anticlimax of his life. As a member of the Red Cross Mission during Kerensky's term of office, deeply influenced by Major Raymond Robins, he understood the meaning of revolutionary developments that baffled and outraged Allied diplomats, generals and political experts. A natural democrat, he tried to strengthen Kerensky's government. To forestall the Bolsheviki, he made available for famed oldtime anti-Tsarist martyrs, a million dollars of his personal fortune. The money was to be used for propaganda among the soldiers, urging them to continue the War on the grounds...
That statement might have ended the matter, save for ulterior gossip because of which a special Governmental com-mission last week kept Dr. Weibel on tenterhooks. The rumor: Dr. Weibel is a Nazi, and therefore a menace to the Austrian Republic. The man who was supposed to be spreading such a tale: Dr. Weibel's assistant and camera-operator, Dr. Preissecker...
...Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark, onetime Ambassador to Mexico, the two potent churchmen were given a rousing native welcome, garlanded with lets (see cut). They toured the islands with a party including President Castle H. Murphy of the Hawaii L. D. S. Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth...
Precisely how loathe the President was to believe that there is going to be war, he then showed by having all U. S. citizens in Ethiopia instructed to depart. Immediately the Ethiopian Mission Service ordered all its U. S. and other missionaries to remain at their posts in Ethiopia "whatever happens." Its explanation: "We put our faith in God, and do not expect consular protection." At latest reports from Washington the State Department still had not ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal...