Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rome. Despite the anger of the populace, the Pope has decided that it would be futile to despatch a protest to Moscow and has refrained from so doing...
Monsignor Constantine Butchkavitch, Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, was murdered by order of a barbarian court. These tidings have resounded throughout the civilized world; in some cases pogroms have been carried out against the Jews, who are held fallaciously by anger-blind people to be responsible for the prelate's death for no other reason than that the arch-fiends at Moscow are said to be Jews-a contention not entirely true. In other countries where the common rudiments of law and order are preserved more by instinct than by compulsion, many millions of people...
...Socialist Call, on the other hand, uses the scandal as revolutionary propaganda. Speaking of the District Attorney's attempt to keep " Marshall's" identity a secret, it says: " This servility and crawling before a millionaire justifies the hot anger of workingmen, who always find the ' majesty of the law' flaunted in their faces...
...Invaders. A meeting of the French and Belgian Premiers-M. Poincaré and M. Theunis-at Brussels provided the most interesting feature of the week's peace preparations. It was discovered that the Belgians, apparently alarmed at the rising anger of Britain, tried to force Raymond Poincaré's reluctant hand. They were under no hallucinations as to the duration of the German resistance, and insisted that a statement should be issued promising the Germans progressive evacuation of the Ruhr as the reparations demanded are paid. Apart from this concession to Belgium, the policy of the French...
...alcoholic beverages are saddled with exceptionally high duty, which acts in some measure as an effective prohibition law. The smugglers buy the spirits in Germany at one crown a liter and sell it to Scandinavian countries at six crowns or more. The perplexed police are biting their nails with anger at the baffling tactics employed by the smart rum-runners...