Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means of enforcing their demand that full publicity be given to all negotiations on the Shantung question between the Pekin and Tokio governments, the recent strike of students in 14 provinces of China may not have proved a brilliant success. As evidence of the militant spirit of young China the walk-out of students is nevertheless tremendously significant. The Chinese students reached their decision to strike through motives of purest patriotism. They feared--whether rightly or not makes no difference that the Pekin Government was disposed to betray the national interests of China unless all its dealings with Japan were...
...South. There must also be discipline. The strike order, when given, must be obeyed; and reports from China indicate that the "walkout", was a fairly general one, the great majority of students having laid down their books as a workman might his tools as a protest against the Pekin Government...
After securing the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1903 Mr. Phillips immediately entered upon his diplomatic career as private secretary to the American Ambassador at London. Afterwards he was transferred to Pekin, and returned to the United States in 1908 to occupy the position of Chief of the Division of Eastern Affairs. He was soon made Third Assistant Secretary of State, but was transferred to London, where he remained until his temporary retirement from the diplomatic service in 1912. Under President Wilson in 1914 he resumed his duties as Third Assistant Secretary of State. Quite recently he was raised...