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... never been more true than now . " The third telegram [ reading ] : " Have just returned from the West and find your letter inviting me to be present at dinner Thursday night to Dr. Ferguson . I regret exceedingly I am unable to be ...
... never been more true than now . " The third telegram [ reading ] : " Have just returned from the West and find your letter inviting me to be present at dinner Thursday night to Dr. Ferguson . I regret exceedingly I am unable to be ...
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... never willingly con- sented to the giving away of any portion of its territory to any nation . China has had a hard time , and the hardest of all its times was in 1898 , when Russia came down from the north and took the Liaotung Penin ...
... never willingly con- sented to the giving away of any portion of its territory to any nation . China has had a hard time , and the hardest of all its times was in 1898 , when Russia came down from the north and took the Liaotung Penin ...
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... never had in any of her previous history . After the end of the China - Japanese War , when Japan got such an easy victory over China , the world threw up its hands and said China is so weak that we might as well step in and partition ...
... never had in any of her previous history . After the end of the China - Japanese War , when Japan got such an easy victory over China , the world threw up its hands and said China is so weak that we might as well step in and partition ...
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... and they all became Chinese . I wish we had strength enough in our New England blood to take every Italian and every Pole and every Jew that comes to us , and make Americans of them in such a way that there would never be 24.
... and they all became Chinese . I wish we had strength enough in our New England blood to take every Italian and every Pole and every Jew that comes to us , and make Americans of them in such a way that there would never be 24.
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... never bartered away a single bit of her territory . She has had a lot of her territory seized , but she has never bartered away a foot of it , and she was no more in danger of bartering away Shantung if Japan had promptly returned it to ...
... never bartered away a single bit of her territory . She has had a lot of her territory seized , but she has never bartered away a foot of it , and she was no more in danger of bartering away Shantung if Japan had promptly returned it to ...
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