Wellington Koo, VK (English spelling)WellingtonKooVK

…Born in Jiading, Jiangsu Province, he went to the United States at a young age and graduated from Columbia University. He was also known as V.K.Wellington Koo. His outstanding language skills and eloquence were known from his time as a student abroad, and after he was appointed as the Chinese envoy to the United States in 1915, he represented China in almost all of the major international political situations that China faced during the interwar period, such as the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the Lytton Inquiry, and continued to criticize Japan's aggression to the Western international community. …

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…江蘇省嘉定に生まれ，若くして渡米，コロンビア大学を卒業した。V.K.Wellington Kooともいう。その秀でた語学力と弁論術は，留学生時代から聞こえ，1915年駐米公使に就任以後，パリ講和会議，ワシントン会議，リットン調査団など，両大戦間期に中国が直面した重大な国際政局のほとんどに，中国代表として活躍し，西欧国際社会に対して，日本の侵略を指弾し続けた。…

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