Foreign Service officers in charge of Consulates General take place and precedence immediately after Brigadier Generals in the Army or Marine Corps.

The people of South Dakota are taking the lead in the preparation of this memorial out of their meager resources, because the American spirit is strong among them.

The fundamental principles which they represented have been wrought into the very being of our Country.

We can not hold our admiration for the historic figures which we shall see here without growing stronger in our determination to perpetuate the institutions which their lives revealed and established.

In the absence of the titular head of the mission, the senior diplomatic officer will act as Charge d'Affaires ad interim.

There is no power that can stay the progress of such a people.

Above all other national figures, he holds the love of his fellow countrymen.

It is for that purpose that we erect memorials.

He stands as the foremost disciple of ordered liberty, a statesman with an inspired vision who is not outranked by any mortal greatness.

Counselors take place and precedence next in succession after the Chief of Mission.

As the conference knows, I have been rather more interested in the consolidation of departments already established than of establishing any new ones.

I have done it regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary.

I haven't liked the idea of establishing a new department.

I don't think the death of General Wood will make any difference about the administration of the insular affairs.

Quite naturally I thought I would like to confide it to the newspapermen first.

I do not expect that the failure to reach an agreement at Geneva will have any serious effect upon the peace of the world.

It is too early to tell just what will be the effect of the conference we held.

I do not know just how many Americans we have in China.