Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chungking news came that the trucks were getting through. Spirits rose. British Ambassador Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, beloved by Chinese as he loves them, invited hundreds to cocktails and dinner, where ambiguously mild white wine was passed and toasts were drunk to the future, creeping in along the Burma Road...
...that nerve-racking last round, even dead-eyed Dick Shaughnessy hobbled one, finished in a three-way tie (at 249 x 250) with F. S. Hawkins, Dallas druggist, and Alex Kerr, Los Angeles sportsman. After two shoot-offs, Dick finally shook off his rivals, was crowned national all-gauge champion, skeet's No. 1 title...
...nowhere in Washington was the tension more concentrated than in the pinkish-brick British Embassy that stood on its hill below the Naval Observatory. And it was concentrated there on the calm, portly, six-foot figure of the British Ambassador, Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Karr), Marquess of Lothian, Baron Ker of Newbottle, and holder of five other hereditary titles which, come British victory or British defeat, were not likely to mean much in the future...
...Empire reformer Philip Kerr edited the Round Table, a scholarly journal of political philosophy. As Lloyd George's secretary during World War I, he made two secret journeys to Switzerland to try to convince Austrians that further fighting was hopeless. As a peacemaker, he was with Lloyd George at Versailles, played a part in drafting the Versailles Treaty which he has since criticized. As Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for India in the MacDonald Cabinet, he sat in the endless Round-Table Conferences on the Indian Constitution, visited Delhi (where he was greeted with a sign reading "Lothian...
...Chungking. Last July Ambassador Johnson was rumored to have smuggled in two Japanese agents in the rumble seat of his car (which has no rumble seat). One of them was supposed to be no less a person than Prince Fumimaro Konoye. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr was later said to have peace terms for Chiang. Mme. Chiang flew to Hong Kong: she was going to talk peace with Puppet-Elect Wang Ching-wei. The U. S., British and French Ambassadors met in Shanghai; they were talking peace. They met in Chungking; they were talking peace. Last week Shanghai...