At Sea with Joseph ConradGrant Richards Limited, 1922 - 150 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 57 - ... had a lot to live up to in satisfying Rampling as to my qualifications. Whether I succeeded or not I cannot say, but whenever I did anything in front of the guardian of my motors I always wondered how Admiral Beatty would have acted in similar circumstances. I remember MK.
الصفحة 122 - Conrad with the greatest cordiality, and spared no pains in interceding on his behalf, but, as it appeared at the time, all to no purpose, when the strangest of all things happened. Conrad was at the Legation and in conversation with the Minister when a telegram arrived from our own Foreign Office requesting...
الصفحة 19 - I don't want to know anything about it,' went on writing and smoking his pipe, so I darted out of the room, knowing that I could go ahead...
الصفحة 122 - Vienna with his wife and two boys, and had the greatest difficulty in getting permission to leave the country. Mr Penfield, the American Minister, had taken charge of British affairs, and to him he appealed to use his influence with the Austrian Foreign Office to secure passports for himself and family. Mr Penfield received Conrad...