Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscount Grey of Fallodon, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs: "I believe, and I think the great majority of the people in this country believe, that this question (German reparations) could be settled by the League of Nations...
...year 1917, Viscount Ishii, who, with untiring nerves, has represented his Emperor in every great capital of the world, came on a mission to the United States. Before he departed he induced Mr. Lansing to promulgate an agreement whereby, the United States recognized the "special interests" of Japan in China. Despite all kinds of assurances from Mr. Lansing, the world believed that America was abandoning her insistence upon the "open door." Whatever the Lansing- Ishii agreement may or may not have really meant, its promulgation was considered as a conspicuous example of the occasional clumsiness which characterizes American diplomacy...
Harold West as Viscount Deeford the young nobleman, who, because of his complete artlessness, is selected by Disraeli to make the purchase of the controlling shares in the Suez Canal, played with appreciation and effectiveness, as did Miss Standing as Lady Reversey, his fiancee...
Commenting on the Secretary's statements, Lord Birkenhead, the former Lord Chancellor, stated that France could, if she wished, destroy London and almost every center of industrial population in England. The usually conservative Viscount Grey in a debate in the House of Lords said that unless a sense of security could be attained in Europe, England could not possibly rest content with her present inability to defend herself against attacks in the air. The entire British press is discussing the problem and urging an increased air program. Even A. G. Gardiner, editor of the liberal Manchester Guardian, criticizes France...
...Mayor of Tokyo, Viscount Goto, selected Shojo Usui, veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who holds the fourth rank of the Kodo-kan School of Jiu-Jitsu, to be his bodyguard. The Mayor chose a jiu-jitsu exponent because he believes that this famous art of self-defense is the most effective. Mayor Goto has recently received threatening letters because of his connection with the visit of A. A. Joffe, representative of the Russian Soviet...