Koo Vi Kyuin (Chinese: 顧維鈞; pinyin: Gù Wéijūn; Wade–Giles: Ku Wei-chün; January 29, 1888 – November 14, 1985), better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a diplomat and statesman of the Republic of China. He was one of China's representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Wellington Koo served as an ambassador to France, Great Britain and the United States; was a participant in the founding of the League of Nations and the United Nations; and sat as a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1957 to 1967. Between October 1926 and June 1927, while serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Koo briefly held the concurrent positions of acting Premier and interim President of the Republic of China.[1] Koo was the first Chinese head of state known to use a Western name publicly.
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Koo Vi Kyuin (Chinese: 顧維鈞; pinyin: Gù Wéijūn; Wade–Giles: Ku Wei-chün; January 29, 1888 – November 14, 1985), better known as V. K. WellingtonKoo, was...
and politician V.K. WellingtonKoo, long before her husband's death. After the war, she moved to the United States, in 1956 Koo divorced his wife and...
of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as WellingtonKoo, Radovan Karadžić, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong. One of the architects...
of the United States. The Chinese ambassador to the United States, WellingtonKoo, stated that China could no more relinquish Shandong, which was the...
ISBN 9781848880016, retrieved 20 March 2022 Koo, Hui-lan Oei; Van Rensselaer Thayer, Mary (1943). Hui-lan Koo (Madame WellingtonKoo): An Autobiography as Told to Mary...
returned to Semarang. Oei Hui-lan (later Madame WellingtonKoo due to her marriage to V.K. WellingtonKoo), Oei's second daughter from his first wife, believed...
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p. 119; King, p. 61; Vickers, p. 263; Ziegler, p. 224 Koo, Madame Wellington (1943), Hui-Lan Koo: An Autobiography as told to Mary van Rensselaer Thayer...
felt betrayed as the German territory in China was handed to Japan. WellingtonKoo refused to sign the treaty and the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace...
of Republic, Backed by Wu and Chang Armies. DR. W.W. YEN IS PREMIER WellingtonKoo Gets Finance Portfolio and Sze Is Slated for Foreign Minister". The...
January 1958. Chervin, R. H. (2013). "Turmoil in the Taiwan Strait: WellingtonKoo and ROC Foreign Policy 1953–1956". East Asia. 30 (4): 291–306. doi:10...
detest the Japanese and secretly planned to escape on two occasions. WellingtonKoo, a diplomat, recalled in his memoirs when he was in Dalian, he once...
Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898) November 14 – WellingtonKoo, Chinese statesman (b. 1888) November 16 – John Sparkman, American politician...
(English name May Tang) was married to the prominent diplomat V. K. WellingtonKoo. She died in October 1918 during the 1918 flu pandemic, after falling...
of China Envoy 1912–35 Zhang Yintang 1912–13 Xia Xiefu 1913–15 V. K. WellingtonKoo 1915–20 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1920–29 Wu Chaoshu 1929–31 Yan Huiqing 1931–33...
Chinese diplomat WellingtonKoo gave the Chinese case for Shandong. Intelligent, charming, and fluent in both French and English, Koo became one of the...
against China's Foreign Minister WellingtonKoo failed after a bomb was delivered to his home in a gift package. One of Dr. Koo's servants opened the package...
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