Word: quo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orient's greatest, suavest diplomats are Chinese Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo and Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain Dr. Quo Taichi. Ordered to Geneva last week by Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek, their job was to raise the moral issue of the undeclared war Japan is now waging in China before the Assembly of the League and the conscience of the World. Too wise to beat their breasts or attempt either a pious or an ethical appeal, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo simply arrived in Geneva much before the Assembly was to meet and conversed intelligently with...
Soon the world read reams of Geneva dispatches in which were argued the pros and cons of what it would be best for China to do-that is, how Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo could best put their case. The flattered correspondents and the Chinese diplomats soon agreed, among other things, that China must not accuse Japan of making "war" since such an accusation might well force President Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act, and from this China would suffer far more than Japan. By the time the Assembly actually met this week, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo...
...such fools were Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo as to imagine Japan can be caused to accept a League "invitation" to rejoin the League for the express purpose of being chastised, but should Japan refuse. Article Seventeen is so drawn that Article Sixteen automatically is invoked and under this League States are supposed to punish the offender who goes to war by applying "Sanctions...
Since application of sanctions in the case of Ethiopia backfired badly, scarcely anyone now expects the European powers to again use sanctions, unless the U. S. can be persuaded to apply them also. Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo had this point well thought out too, suavely demanded that the International Advisory Committee on Chinese-Japanese Conflicts constituted...
...mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...