Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary Kellogg's statement careful study, it seems to be very fair in its statement of America's attitude. Of course, the United States will have to protect its citizens in China, as it is doing in Nicaragua; but it will be a different job in China."-Sir Esme Howard, Ambassador of His Brittanic Majesty...
...Secretary of State had, with good reason, felt it his duty to issue a statement about China. From London, Sir Austen Chamberlain had issued one and was preparing to issue another. Up at the Capitol, Congress was resolving about it. Headlines were black. In Chinese harbors and muddy rivers, U. S. gunboats rocked...
Next day, however, Mr. Kellogg said something original-something more than Sir Austen had been willing to say. He said the U. S. would consider a diplomatic China to exist if the chief contending factions would agree on a joint delegation to represent China. This was a great advance, but Mr. Kellogg did not put it in writing, and there is no immediate likelihood that the Chinese factions will agree...
...Sir Robert Peel...
...whole complexion of the affair altered as Captain Wright testified last week on his own behalf and was cross-examined by Lord Gladstone's attorneys. At the trial Lord and Lady Gladstone sat together, venerable, glacial; and in the visitors' gallery sat famed (though slightly passÉ) dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; the Rt. Hon. Thomas P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons"; Lady Milner and many another...