As a matter of fact Joe had smiled in the face of death more than once, and this is a school through which even diplomats rarely pass.

If the present-day, diplomats and Foreign Ministers have sincerely striven for peace, then their utter incapacity and futility have been proved to the hilt, and they must be swept away.

In forcing this appalling crime upon the nations, it is the rulers, the diplomats, the militarists, who have sealed their doom.

Thus it is that this war, carefully manoeuvred by the diplomats, is being fought to conserve to one set of capitalists their right to exploit the peoples, and to check another set from encroaching upon that right.

The only chance we run lies in the danger that eligible young men may prove shy, and refuse to take our bait; but are we not diplomats, mother dear?

Let the chauvinists, burning with hate on this and that side the Rhine, urge us on to war; let the diplomats and Governments of both countries sacrifice the well-being of the two nations to militarism and the war-bogey.

In the midst of this riot of tyranny, while the nation yet seethed with indignation at the outrageous electoral farce imposed upon it, the first Centennial of Mexican independence was being celebrated before the foreign diplomats with unprecedented pomp and display.

It is not only in London and Berlin and Washington and Paris that wives and daughters of diplomats boost the business of their men-folk.

"Maybe you won't be so cocksure hereafter that diplomats are always making mountains out of mole-hills.

" "And, after all," continued Susie, "our reply was the exact and literal truthof a kind which, I should imagine, is well known to diplomats.

"I understand it as all diplomats understand it.

" "Then God save me from diplomats!" retorted Vernon.

"The peace of Europe," he said, "is a kind of bugaboo which diplomats use to frighten each other with, and even to frighten themselves with.

She's got a heartsomething that diplomats know nothing about and never take into account.

"I suppose I'm to permit myself to remain in this damnable position for the sake of a lot of third-rate diplomats in our foreign office!

I bear a certain resemblance to him, and a lot of paper-diplomats persuaded me to impersonate him here in order to leave him free to carry out the negotiations for the succession to Schloshold-Markheim without being embarrassed by the representations of either side.

We used all to sit round here, in this very hall, me and the diplomats, and play games, such as 'Ultimatum, ultimatum, who's got the ultimatum.'

And we used to have big dinners and conferences, especially after the military manoeuvres and the autumn massacresme and the diplomats, all with stars and orders, and me in my white fez with a copper tasseland hold discussions about how to reform Macedonia.

They used to present methe diplomats didwith what they called their Minimum, and then we (I mean Codfish Pasha and me) had to draft in return our Maximumsee?and then we all had to get together again and frame a status quo.

The news from Rome,the intrigues of the German diplomats, the possibility that Italy might enter the war,were absorbing his entire attention.

When he was at home friends, relatives, diplomats, delegations of Indians to visit the Great White Father swarmed thither in shoals.

None of our early diplomats did as much for the west as Jay, whom at one time the whole west hated and reviled; Mann Butler, whose politics are generally very sound, deserves especial credit for the justice he does the New Yorker.

Its true history is to be found, not in the doings of the diplomats who determined merely the terms upon which it was made, but in the western growth of the people of the United States from 1769 to 1803, which made it inevitable.

Jefferson, through his agents at Paris, asked only for New Orleans; but Napoleon thrust upon him the great West, because Napoleon saw, what the American statesmen and diplomats did not see, but what the Westerners felt; for he saw that no European power could hold the country beyond the Mississippi when the Americans had made good their foothold upon the hither bank.

Poets, authors, orators, lords, ladies, diplomats, as well as the Prince of Wales, were to be seen in her drawing-rooms.