Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sponge Cake Showdown. On the fiscal battle line, choleric, drawn-faced Philip Snowden put away the clumsy weapon of personal insult, labored honestly to clarify the points on which he demanded concessions before Great Britain would agree to join with Europe in ratifying the Young Plan (TIME, May 13, et seq.). The plan proposes a certain division of German Reparations-called "sponge cake" by homely Yorkshireman Snowden-among the Creditor Powers (Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, etc.). Fortnight ago Chancellor Snowden rocked the fiscal and diplomatic worlds by demanding for Britain "MORE SPONGE CAKE!" But only last week...
When Chancellor Snowden had studied the Four-Power offer he denounced it as actually giving Britain only 20% satisfaction. Once more he demanded 100%, vowed he would take not a farthing less than the $10,800,000 per annum more "spongecake" he had asked at first...
...French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...
Every now and then, when buxom Queen Marie of Jugoslavia has a son, Great Britain's Duke of York packs his bags and travels to Belgrade to act as Godfather and represent the British Royal Family at the christening. He went when Crown Prince Peter was christened, he went again when Prince Tomislav was christened (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But last week when Queen Marie's third son was about to be christened at Castle Bled, the Duke of York, though invited, stayed at home, delegated his second cousin, onetime Queen Elizabeth of Greece, to be chief sponsor...
...Sunderland's views. For example, as long ago as 1911, Lord Morley, then Secretary of State for India, described the native officials in the Indian Civil Service as men "as good in every way as the best of the men in Whitehall" (i.e. equals of the officials in Britain's own Civil Service...