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...fact that Secretary of State Kellogg's clerks double-date every document of moment that leaves the U. S. State Department; once in the usual way; and again dating from "the independence of the United States," now in its 150th year...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Secretary Kellogg's document is that it is written in the first person with that kindly conceit which is so effective for successful diplomacy. For example, he writes at the beginning: "The Tacna-Arica controversy has engaged my closest attention ever since I assumed the duties of Secretary of State. All of my predecessors in this office during the past 40 years have followed with the deepest interest the varying phases of the problem, and several Secretaries, especially my immediate predecessor, Mr. Hughes, have been intimately concerned, as I have been, with...
...have been celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia this year. It would seem that some time during its existence there might have been given in a striking and dramatic way an evidence of our appreciation of the significance of that great document. But it seems to me that the most striking and dramatic event that occurred during its existence, was the greatest prize fight ever held in our history and that contemporaneous with the celebration of the Declaration occurred an election for United States Senator in the state of its birth which...
...Powers represented on the recent Chinese Extraterritoriality Conference at Peking simultaneously released last week the report of their delegates. This weighty document repeated in emphatic form facts known to everyone who knows anything about modern China. It added a program of "recommendations" for necessarily remote action...
...Mexican notes both intimated politely that the governments concerned have said all there is to say on the subject. Secretary Kellogg's last note, in fact, read like the first half of an "ultimatum" but was not completed by the specific threats popularly associated with such a document. A period of vexful waiting loomed...