Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Foreign Minister, Sen Jui-lin, spoke to the delegates in general terms and deplored the fact that China, "a sovereign power," should be restricted in setting her own tariff schedules. Marshal Tuan Chi-Jui, "Chief Executive" of China, delivered himself to much the same effect. Then up rose Dr. Cheng Ting Wang, a graduate of Yale University, sometime Premier and Foreign Minister of China. In loud clear tones, speaking in flawless English, he outlined China's specific proposals to the Powers...
...representatives of the British press for their work at Locarno, which he said was "often a help and never a hindrance to our efforts." He also issued an official statement, in part as follows: "I am full of gratitude that it has been given to me to represent my Sovereign at such a moment. The treaties initialed at Locarno threaten no one, are directed against no nation, secure the safety of many and are welcomed...
...Extraterritoriality" (or, more properly, "extraterritorial jurisdiction") is a system under which the nationals of a sovereign power are allowed to remain under the same laws and institutions of their own country when abroad, instead of becoming amenable to those of the foreign locality...
...Leone and the Ivory Coast, there stretches 350 miles of junglous coastline. Back of it, for some 200 miles into the interior of Africa, there are great jungles, and 2,000,000 Negroes and 120 white men. About 50,000 of the Negroes are civilized and run an independent sovereign republic and have done so for 78 years. They speak English. They elect a President, a Senate and a House of Representatives They have a Cabinet consisting of a Secretary of State, a Secretary of the Treasury, a Secretary of the Interior, an Attorney General, a Postmaster General, a Secretary...
...Vortex?In a conspicuously eventful week this play from England was easily the sovereign event. As a corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...