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...Kuyuin Wellington Koo, famed "political handyman of China," sometime Chinese plenipotentiary to the principal Occidental powers and conferences during the last generation, was commanded by Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and Peking, to form a Cabinet...
...What "nobly 'simple" reply did the Duke of Wellington make when Lord Anglesey suddenly observed, "By God I've lost...
...Wellington: [At Waterloo] "Lord Anglesey suddenly observed, 'By God, I've lost my leg!' 'Have you, by God?' replied the Duke...
...from Peking were so meagre last week as to suggest that the armed forces now occupying that city (TIME, May 3) were exercising a ruthless censorship. The consensus of reports was that Dr. W. W. Yen had been set up at Peking as "Chief Executive"* of China," with Dr. Wellington Koo as his Premier and Foreign Minister. He was allegedly supported by the victorious armies of General Chang Hsueh-liang, field commander for his father, the great Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang...
...titles of the British peerage in descending order of rank: Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Barons. There are 28 British dukedoms of which only four have been created since Wellington was made a Duke in 1814. The last dukedom created was that of Fife, in 1900, now held by H. H. Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, wife of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, uncle of George...