Word: monnett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deadline Chanis still insisted that he would never quit, and called on his little guard to defend him. But by then the situation was hopeless, and the foreign diplomatic corps intervened to avert bloodshed. Just before 2 o'clock a committee of ten diplomats, including U.S. Ambassador Monnett B. Davis, arrived at the police station to ask for a ten-minute extension. They telephoned the palace, where Chanis was now ready to compromise: he would resign if Remón would...
...present, for the purposes of keeping tins brief, let me state just these points: 1) Monnett B. Davis, American Consul at Shanghai, fears the situation to be so dark that there exists in China a fuse leading to a huge bomb, and that this fuse is burning rapidly, and only very sensational action can cut it and prevent the bomb from blowing up in our faces; 2) Mr. Tsuyee Pel; Governor of the Central Bank (China's official currency), felt the situation so dark a year ago that he resigned his post to devote his time to planning...