Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infant republic on its feet, their erstwhile leader is busy organizing an International Irish League which is to start a new campaign to "obtain the absolute Independence of Ireland". He who was once the "white hope" of Irishmen--at home and abroad--has become the more spokesman of a few malcontents...
japan, in particular, whose spokesman at first, before the Conference began, made public their willingness, if not preference, to have naval armaments limited without reference to any settlement of disputes over the Far East, has found that the limitation of naval armament as presented in the form of the Hughes proposal will vitally affect her status as an Asiatic power, unless she knows what the policy of other Powers are toward conditions that touch what she feels to be her national security. She has made this plain by proposing, though not officially and publicly, the relative naval power be determined...
...program towards mutual understanding at the Conference. Fortunately both China and Japan accepted the "got offices" of Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour in arranging a series of discussions of the matter in the presence of the American and British "observers". At the first of the conversations, the Japanese spokesman took advantage of the occasion in his speech of thanks to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Baleful to refer to the meetings as "direct negotiations", thus by obvious implication claiming a victory at the outset for Japan...
Enough has transpired, however, to indicate that the Germans consider the French estimate impossible. Dr. Simons, the German spokesman, declares that his people--government and workmen alike--will not submit to measures which would result in the "economic strangulation" of their country. The French, on the other hand, believe that whereas Germany is fighting for further industrial development, they themselves are insisting only upon bare survival in demanding the restoration of their devastated land. Lloyd George epitomizes the situation by stating that the German people do not realize that they lost the war. Threats of coercion from one side...
...hard, too, to believe that the Senator has been personally delegated as Mr. Harding's official spokesman. Yet he is confidently promising what shall and shall not be done by the administration during the next four years, and his confidence has carried him far. No good ever came or is likely to come from promises so freely given, especially when they deal with international disputes and racial prejudices. There are times when words accomplish more harm than good. Senator Lodge is a clever statesman, but he seems to have forgotten, for the time being, diplomacy and tact...