Word: bemusing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Bainbridge Colby, 80, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State from 1920 to 1921; after a ten-day illness; in Bemus Point, N.Y. A longtime foe of Communism, Colby wrote the note refusing U.S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. in 1920 ("It is not possible for the . . . United States to recognize the present rulers of Russia as a government with which the relations common to friendly governments can be maintained."), stood by his opinion...