Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just quoted conveyed last week to readers of the Tokyo news organ Nichi Nichi Shinbun a very clear impression of the situation faced by the Japanese Delegation in Geneva. While the U. S. and Britain "struggled," how could their strife be turned to good account by Japanese Chief Delegate Viscount Minoru Saito? Obviously Admiral Viscount Saito ought to cast his influence on one side or the other-after appropriate bargaining. He chose last week the British side...
...Lord Chancellor, Rt. Hon. George, Viscount Cave, broached the Government's program in carefully generalized terms. He called for three major "reforms...
Cleverer was a Japanese attaché who noted that the ages of the chief delegates closely approximated a 3-5-5 ratio. Mr. Gibson is 43; Mr. Bridgeman 62; and Viscount Saito 69. Japanese thought that a good ratio, a good joke...
Richard Burden Haldane, First Viscount Haldane ("Labor Peer"), took exactly the opposite stand, saying ominously: "If you try to strengthen the House of Lords, we part from you. We will fight you as long as we are here...
...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...