Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mostly, but now and then rising to express in even tones few well-directed arguments. Further to the side, but coming forward when he spoke, was Brookhart, the singularly soft-voiced insurgent from Iowa, striving in unequal battle with the Heflins and the Caraways, badgering the so-called farm bloc for its unsuccess...
...afternoon, at one o'clock, the Parties of the Left Bloc (Radical, Unified and Republican Socialists) met in the Hotel du Palais d'Orsay, passed rowdily a unanimous motion calling upon President Millerand to resign, despite the remonstrances of prospective Premier Herriot, elected ex-Premier Painlevé Left Bloc candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber...
...Cabinet. To a party of Labor women at Albert Hall, Premier MacDonald said: "I still claim that what the Labor Government did after finishing a study of the experts' report -namely, taking the initiative in announcing to the world that the report should be put into operation en bloc -was the right thing to do and that if that course is pursued Europe will have a new chance of finding its feet. "Germany, France, ourselves, Italy, Belgium-none of us-can afford to go into details now. It's all together -the whole report and nothing...
...intransigeance will in all probability be dropped, but the essential points in his policy such as payment of reparations, guarantees, etc., are certain to be retained. The real divergence of policy is in religious matters. The new Chamber is anti-clericalist in complexion and opposed to Bloc National's policy of happiness with the Vatican...
...pacifism during the War, yet took such delight in claiming responsibility for the appointment of le maréchal Foch to supreme command of the French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany who is also democratic and sincere. . . . Peace, peace at all costs...