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...between Mr. Stearns and the President seem to be simply these: that Stearns has supported Coolidge through the thick and thin of politics. That he was Coolidge's right hand man in the settlement of the Boston police strike. These activities earned Stearns the titles from political opponents of "Lord Lingerie" and "Cal's Angel." As far as several able political correspondents can make out, however, the relation between Mr. Stearns and the new President is only about as "sinister" as friendship...
...much the strength of the Turks as the weakness of the Allies that influenced the course of events. The United States did send two observers, but observers do not influence the Turks. It takes force or a show of force to do so. ... Lord Curzon had to assent to Ismet's statement that the Armenian question was ended by the destruction of the Armenians, and the greatest crime of history was condoned. . . . But as long as the United States persists in its course of isolation ... it ill becomes us to criticize the other Powers. . . . Why had our help...
Sends telegram to a dinner in honor of Lord Bryce given by the Sulgrave Institution...
...first session of the Lausanne Conference met at Lausanne, Switzerland, on November 20, 1922. The Allies were obliged to alter their tone to the Turks, because Turkey appeared before them as a conqueror. The Allies, led by the domineering Lord Curzon, British plenipotentiary to the Conference, merely dropped the form of their claims but "held rigidly to the substance. Turkey was told to go home and sign the treaty. She was warned not to break the peace, and with this final admonition the Allied delegates entered their wagon-lits and steamed...
...Lord Mayor's banquet in London, at which Secretary Mellon of the United States Treasury was a guest, Premier Baldwin referred to the recent debt funding negotiations for the settlement of the British debt to the United States, and added...