Word: sayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Billings Kellogg was caught last week by London newsgatherers between the studio of Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, who is painting a Kellogg portrait to hang in the State Department at Washington, and a golf course. Said Mr. Kellogg: "I said almost everything one could say in regard to international peace during my term as Secretary of State. . . . As one of the authors of the Peace Pact, I should not talk about it, but I feel satisfied that it made a great impression throughout the world...
...proper place. It's nice to sit in a cafe. It's comfortable. The go-getter stops panting. The world resumes its normal shape. You know, I like the way European cities take care of their people. The large parks, the wide boulevards, the sidewalk cafes! Say, it's nice to sit in a cafe and have something. If Prohibition hadn't interfered, California would be the greatest grape-growing region in the world, making better wines than France, and we'd have cafes with little tables...
...guarantee freedom of expression, otherwise our correspondent will be withdrawn and so will the correspondents of other American newspapers, so that Russia will find herself without means of communication with the outer world." The rage into which Comrade Tchitcherin flew when he read these words was towering, to say the least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government of equal power!" His reply was to expel the Tribune's correspondent, George Seldes,* thus preventing potent, four-fisted, he-publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson from executing their threat. In due time...
...say that Russia at her worst has done nothing worse than France has done! France has repudiated four-fifths of her national debts, and there are many British people who patriotically lent money to France during the War who have been practically ruined by France bilking her national obligations...
...that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse than Russia ! Next day in the House of Commons rash Pixie Snowden, still defiant, received a Conservative broadside. Sir Austen Chamberlain was present and rather more than close to tears. He has said frankly in the past that he loves France "as a man loves...