...there was this characteristic passage: "Our Minister, Caleb Cushing, is authorized to make a treaty. Let it be just. Let there be no unfair advantage on either side." And Webster's instructions, too, pointed out emphatically that the aims of the United States government...

...concluded by stating that the bearer of the letter, Commissioner Cushing, was sent to the Celestial Empire "to make a treaty to regulate trade. Let it be just....Let there be no unfair advantage on either side." The fact that Cushing succeeded in his task and survived the ignominy and humiliation of this ludicrous...

...U. SA, sent a letter to the Emperor of China which contained the following sentence : "Our minister is authorized to make a treaty to regulate trade. Let it be just. Let there be no advantage on either side." Since the World War broke out the Chinese and American business men in China...