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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owing to the financial effort demanded by the restoration of France's devastated regions, the general plan for a defensive system could not be formulated until two years ago. The program involves the construction of roads, railways, underground telegraph systems, and the stocking of frontier posts with engineering and artillery equipment. "Not only are old forts being brought up to date, but new works are to be constructed as close as possible to the frontier . . . especially in the newly recovered territory. The most important features of the plan will be executed within 18 months. "I wish to take this...
...James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain arrived in Manhattan last week (see p. 27) the volley of cheering was not unanimous. For also in the city was Mme. Sayba Garzouzi, Egypt's only woman lawyer, now studying jurisprudence in the U. S. A big woman, born 31 years ago in Syria, she has the lavish figure and smooth skin which discriminating Egyptians are known to prefer. Her jet hair matches her darting eyes; her dimples make her laughter an asset of which any lawyer might well be proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes of Egypt...
Last week Prince Peter of Montenegro arrived in England with his fair wife Violet Emily Wagner, British-born music hall dancer whom he married five years ago. In London he smiled while she pushed through a crowd of welcoming potentates, to grab, hug and kiss her father, a onetime London detective sergeant. Said the prince, beaming upon his wife: "There is no woman who can equal the English blond, and I have chosen the best...
Fortnight ago when Manuel Morales, his sister Rita and three friends decided to spend their vacation in Oaxaca hunting for buried treasure near the ruined temples of Teposcolula, friends considered them practical, prosaic. So did Oaxaca state authorities who issued a treasure hunting license with the usual provision that 50% of the findings, if any, should be given to the state...
...Wang), able Yale graduate, gloomily summoned reporters to his Nanking office. "The next three months, gentlemen," said Yale's Wang in fluent, accentless English, "will be the most critical period in the diplomatic history of China."* Reasons for Foreign Minister Whang's forebodings were: 1) Fortnight ago, just as China was settling down to a period of comparative calm, General Chang Fa-k'uei, leader of the efficient, modernized "ironsides" division of the Nationalist Army, suddenly revolted, marched his men south through Hunan Province to join the southern rebels of Kwangsi, who have defied the authority...