Word: legatione
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"I may mention that since the attempt to establish a republic 14 years ago there have been 8 presidents or chief executives, 42 cabinets with a continuously changing membership, and 25 ministers of justice. The last president, Tsao Kun, was locked up in Peking from December, 1924, to April, 1926...
"The American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for...
Welcome. Chairman Grover Whalen of the Mayor's Committee of Welcome and Mrs. Vincent Astor, personal representative of Mayor Walker of New York, boarded the Leviathan at quarantine from the municipal steamer Macon and welcomed Queen Marie in the name of the city. Followed J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary...
Allen W. Dulles is no dullard. He resigned from the U. S. diplomatic corps because he could not afford to be promoted to the post of Counselor of the Legation at Peking. His salary- was to be $8,000 a year. Neither is Mr. Dulles extravagant. He can easily live...
Foreign Minister Briand of France summoned peremptorily to Paris last week the Turkish Ambassador, Fethy Bey, who was vacationing at Dinard. Irate, M. Briand demanded the instant re lease from prison at Constantinople of the captain of the French steamer Lotus who had been jailed in defiance of international law...