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Mayor Hylan read his speech, placing tactless emphasis on minor unpleasantries the Americans had suffered in France. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, Chairman of the American Olympic Committee, corrected this bad impression before the Mayor distributed his City's largesse among the athletes in the shape of gold medals for one and all. That gesture completed the welcome, save for a beefsteak dinner uptown, to which all rushed hungrily...
...correction of a bad impression created by a tactless Mayor...
...various terms of imprisonment. Premier Poincaré of France was moved to send a telegram to Moscow appealing for the lives of the professors "in the name of civilization and humanity and on behalf of the Government and public opinion in France." The Bolshevik said M. Poincaré was tactless and accused him of unwarrantable interference in Russian domestic affairs. The Soviet official journal Izvestia said with due sarcasm: "Where were the humanitarian feelings of the French Government when Russia was surrounded by enemies and the Russian people starving...
After all it can't be dreadfully exciting on the road to Mandalay--or even off of it. The flying fishes play very well, no doubt, but they offer no real intellectual stimulus, and the dawn coming up like thunder all the time must be as monotonously tactless as Wagnerian opera or the alarm-clock. Moreover there is China always across the bay, never any nearer, never any further, serene, immovable, Chinese...
Stanley Baldwin appears to have made a most excellent batch of his brief careers as Prime Minister. Before he assumed the office, he lost many American well-wishers by a tactless remark about the American attitude in regard to the British war debt. At home he has failed to start British business on the up-swing toward prosperity. His foreign policy has failed to reopen foreign markets; his internal fiscal policy has taxed England white in order to bring English exchange to par to take advantage of that American inflation which has not yet occurred; and as a last resource...