Word: tai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telegram by Limousine. Welcome at this juncture was a diversion by Chinese Delegate Quo Tai-chi who wailed: "There is no doubt that continued military occupation [by Japan] of China's northeastern provinces constitutes the gravest existing danger of another war." After Mr. Quo had declared "Russia is the arch between Europe and Asia, hence China welcomes Russia to membership in the League," he received warm congratulations from the Great Powers and M. Barthou got back to the business of steering the Soviet Union...
With an expression of deep pain Chinese Minister Quo Tai-Chi sat in the diplomats' gallery while Stanley Baldwin continued the Government's case: "One of the conclusions to which I have been driven is that there is no such thing as a sanction which will work which does not mean war. In other words if we adopt sanctions we must be ready for war, and if we adopt them without being ready for war we are not honest trustees of the nation. ... If this country is giving Europe a collective guarantee or collective sanctions, it means...
China was not interested in the spectacle of Stanley Baldwin girding himself for battle, but she screamed with rage at Sir John Simon's denial. In London Minister Quo Tai-Chi would not let himself be quoted, but someone known as "an official in high Chinese quarters" announced...
...London Chinese Minister Quo Tai-Chi bustled around to see Sir John Simon at the Foreign Office. Shortly after. U. S. Ambassador Bingham conferred with Minister Quo Tai-Chi. In Washington Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, popped in on Stanley K. Hornbeck, Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs at the State Department. Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito visited Undersecretary of State William Phillips, while Secretary of State Hull called on President Roosevelt. In Tokyo British Ambassador Sir Francis Lindley dropped in at the Foreign Office and next day handsome, deaf U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew went ambling around...
...with a billiard parlor in Manhattan. In Chicago last week he won his divorce after displaying a bruise on his forehead caused, he said, by an ashtray hurled by Princess Nai Tai Ta. Golf in the Dark...