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...gives greetings" to Tolley's U. S. friends and, though somewhat overspattered with the first person singular, should help the book sell. Tolley's countrymen may feel that this chapter smacks of the alibi for its author's repeated failures abroad; the U. S. friends will find its humor well-meant but embarrassingly weak...
House of Lords. "DieHard" and hard-shell Peers attacked the proposed recognition of the Russian Soviet Government. Lord Emmott said that the British Government's well-meant gesture had received a contemptuous, almost insulting reception from Zinoviev (Chairman of the Third Internationale). He said that a Russian memorandum to a London financial group demanded a loan of ?20,000,000 to ?30, 000,000 as a condition of the return of confiscated property in Russia. Lord Curzon, onetime Foreign Secretary, charged the Soviets with backing Sinn Fein in Ireland, training Indian extremists in Moscow for the special purpose...
...therefore, hope to unify the country by bringing together the various talents for close coöperation. The people must be protected and assured of peace. All friendly powers wish China well, but it will not be a fitting response to their well-meant intentions if we do not fully discharge our duty of giving protection to the lives and property of their nationals in China. ... In recent years the friendly Powers have rendered much assistance to China. It is for us to do our utmost in fulfilling treaty obligations and adjusting foreign debts. Only in that way will...
...natural in man to wish to perpetuate himself in the world, and originality of this sort is often his only resource. Always well-meant, and often valuable, still it imposes a difficult burden on those who come after. A will is the most real kind of ghost, one which it is hard to "lay". Any endowed organization has had its difficulties with clauses made to fit one set of conditions, and made inflexible against all change by their binding nature. A simple phrase, "at the discretion of the administrator", makes a will adaptable to circumstances, but testators are sometimes careless...
...terms at Hebron Academy was that I entered Harvard College in 1853, at fourteen years of age. . . . I look back upon my college education with less satisfaction than any other part of my life. I was not thoroughly fitted. I was too young. The mistake was made, with a well-meant but mistaken view of saving me from the 'dangers of college life,' of boarding me for the first two or three years a mile away from the college--as if there were any dangers or, if there were, as if the best part of a college education...