Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next Saturday the University will be honored by the presence as its guests of Marshal Joffre and the French Commission. France signally paid a tribute to the great regard in which it holds America when it sent Marshal Joffre here as an ambassador to consult concerning the common warfare against the single enemy. That one act would have served as strong proof to us of our spiritual relation with the great republic of Europe, whose liberties we have long come to regard as unalterably bound...
...reported from New York that the unrecognized ambassador from Austria, Count Tarnowski von Tarnow, has departed from America, voyaging to that Austria from which he came once more upon the bounding deep. With him went Baron Eric Zweidinek von Sudenhorst and Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, with a score more of euphemistic princelings. The Austrian Embassy's loss will be the Washington city directory's gain...
Some weeks ago the University inquired of M. Jusserand, the French ambassador to the United States, whether it would be possible to obtain French officers, disabled from active service, as military instructors at Cambridge. The ambassador took up the matter enthusiastically with his Government, which with the greatest generosity agreed to send these officers and to pay their salaries and expenses. The following announcement in regard to their arrival was given out at the College Office yesterday...
Professor Leo S. Rowe, of the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss "The Relations Between the United States and Mexico Since 1911" on May 3 and 5. Professor Rowe served as secretary of the recent American-Mexican border commission. The last lecture will be given by Romulo S. Naon, Argentine ambassador to the United States, on May 17. His subject will be "Argentine Diplomacy...
...Apparently the Chinese have decided to go as far as the United States in hostility to Germany. We have no knowledge that they have declared war, but it is clear that they have sent home the German ambassador. The question which concerns us most is the motive of the Chinese. Of these there are several. One motive is the desire to have a place at the peace conference, when the great questions of the war are settled. What China wants is the permission from the great powers of Europe to raise her tariff. The present Chinese import duty is calculated...