Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while. Then rumors of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess reached his Ambassador, who spoke to him sorrowfully, extracted a pledge of good behavior. Three weeks later, the pledge broken, Lockhart was sent to England "for a rest." When he went back as head of the British Mission in 1918 his wife stayed behind and his mistress lived with him openly until he left Russia for good, two years later. Frank about his domestic misadventures, Lockhart does not dwell on them, spends more time on his eyewitness account of Russia in revolt...
Though he was in England, apparently in disgrace, during the "ten days that shook the world" (Nov. 7-17, 1917), as best-informed British expert on Russia he was considered indispensable. Early the following year he was sent back again as head of a special mission, to establish unofficial relations with the Bolsheviks. His job: "to do as much harm to the Germans as possible, to put a spoke in the wheels of the separate peace negotiations, and to stiffen ... the Bolshevik resistance to German demands." His complicated and delicate job was made harder by the muddled policy...
...London the news was hailed as "best of the week.'' There was talk of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald heading the British mission, which was calculated to arrive "March 5," in ample time to do any settling that might be agreed upon before June 15, next payment date...
...oldsters and Lieut.-General Araki who is 55. He always works until 6, then goes to his club or directly home to a pleasant villa with a formal Japanese garden. On the walls hang Japanese paintings, many "not so good ones" done by brother officers. Absorbed in his great mission of "Japanism," the War Minister draws freely & frankly on Chinese authors for inspiration, paints Chinese characters deftly, devours Chinese poetry...
...Headmaster George Gardner Monks of Lenox School, Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Boston.* Rev. C. Rankin Barnes of the Social Service Department of the Protestant Episcopal Church. There were young Episcopalians: Harold Bend Sedgwick. Harvard 1930; Martin Firth, Hobart 1930, who spoke on "Why I Am Going to the Mission Field"; Nathaniel ("Nat") Noble. Yale 1928, who told "Why I Am Going into the Ministry." With them met students from 20 colleges. They walked, skated, played squash, talked. At midnight, while many another student was roistering 1932 away, they knelt in St. Paul's elaborate Gothic chapel...