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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would the Commissioner retire from Government Service? The answer seemed likely to be an emphatic affirmative ; for, when General Andrews, no admirer of Mr. Haynes, has completed his reorganization scheme (TIME, Aug. 3), the latter is sure to find his cup of humiliation filled to the brim. So thought competent observers...
...Ellis Island, he replied: "No, I cannot say I am satisfied with conditions, and I hope an improvement will come before long." ¶ By a majority of 127 votes, the House defeated a Labor motion to reduce the naval replacement program, outlined a fortnight ago by Premier Baldwin (TIME, Aug. 3). Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who originally was against the program, was forced to defend the Government's naval policy, and a bad time he had. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) reproached him for "arming when no foe threatened and thereby prejudicing the prospects of world peace...
...French debt mission, composed of MM. Barnaud, Roussel, Thion (TIME, Aug 3), arrived in London, began to negotiate a settlement of the French War debt to Britain, long outstanding...
...Repulse, the Prince of Wales aboard, left Cape Town for the island of St. Helena where a brief stop was to be made. On Aug. 14 the Prince will transfer to the light cruiser Curlew which, drawing less water, will be able to land the British Heir Apparent at Montevideo, his first stop on the South American continent...
...French successes of the previous week had in no sense discouraged or reduced the resistance of their enemies. A number of tribal desertions to the Riffians was also reported. Marshal Petain, his face bronzed by the African sun, landed at Ceuta, en route to Paris from the front (TIME, Aug. 3) conversed long and secretly with General Primo Rivera, head of the Spanish military directory. Later, the Marshal disembarked at Marseille. Said...