Word: macmurray
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some months John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U.S. Minister to China at Peking, has been consistently chagrined to discover that the Chinese political and military situation is in such a state of perpetual flux that whatever news he cables to Washington stands about one chance in ten of being pertinent* when received...
Last week, Mr. MacMurray, genuinely bewildered but frank and honest, despatched a long cable to Washington in which he indicated that it was impossible for him to say with certainty that either phase of the following several alternatives represented the truth, even at the moment...
Peking. The onetime imperial city, where Mr. MacMurray dictated his cablegram, was either in the hands of Super-Tuchun Wu Peifu's troops, which had united with the garrison of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang's troops; or the attacking Wu troops (TIME, April 5) held only part of the city, and were still being resisted by the Feng troops...
...MacMurray's cablegram concluded: "All is quiet in Peking...
...Sarah, to be sure, finds TIME invaluable in keeping her near the head of her current events class ; but my wife and I find it equally indispensable in dazzling our friends into thinking us well informed. R. MIDDLETON MACMURRAY Atlanta, Ga. Subscriber MacMurray's proposal has been taken under advisement...