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With the announcement yesterday that the Franco-German dispute over the legality of the proposed Austro-German Customs Union would be relegated to the World Court for an advisory opinion, the present economic situation in Europe has arrived at an interesting and significant phase in its development. Fundamentally it is a repetition of one of the factors which complicated diplomatic relations in 1914, economic jealousy between France and the Central Powers. At that time the friction contributed to the numerous causes for war then existing on the continent. Now the matter is to be settled by arbitration, and will rest...
Centre of their attack was the projected Austro-German Zollverein or customs union, which Frenchmen suspect, probably accurately, is only a first step toward a complete Austro-German political union (TIME, March 30, April 6). Anti-Briandists insisted that as Foreign Minister he should have foreseen, should have prevented the announcement of the Zollverein. Deputy Georges Scapini, always potent in argument because of the sympathy aroused by his War blindness, cried for a greater show of force, a firmer foreign policy. M. Franklin-Bouillon introduced a motion: "Resolved: That for five years M. Briand has constantly been mistaken...
...whether he is president-elect of France or not, he would take train once more to sit in his accustomed seat on the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. And he delivered a telling blast at the critics who blamed him for doing nothing to stop the Austro-German Zollverein...
...wife Zosia, his friend Felix, Marusia, his Turkestan inamorata. In the diary you see Stanislaw's life as a government clerk, his evenings devoted to writing, his wife's attempts to make him a social celebrity, her flirtations to arouse his jealousy. The novel tells of two Austro-Polish war-prisoners (Stanislaw, his friend Felix) sent to a Turkestan farm to help with the crops. The farm is owned and managed by no rustic curmudgeon but by a Polish girl, pretty and strong-willed Marusia. The prisoners spend pleasant months there, become members of a congenial family. Marusia...
...However," he continued, "Instead of one who have two plans, the French with a political one, and the Germans with an economic one. The French people fear that after the Austro-German customs union may come political plans. It is very difficult to know whether we can have in Europe a synthesis of political and economic objectives. I hope it is possible to bring the aims to the same goal...