Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pale, flabby-fleshed, glisteningly bald Dr. Gustav Stresemann played at the Hague Conference last week an astute, unobtrusive dickering game for Germany. The quarrel over whether Great Britain should get a larger share of the Reparations "sponge cake" (TIME, Aug. 19) was the German Foreign Minister's big chance. In the bitter fiscal struggle of France and her Latin allies to resist the demands of British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden it came logically about, last week, that both antagonists found themselves willing to offer political concessions to the Reich for maintaining a benevolent neutrality...
None the less a principle had been established, and Britain's promise stood unimpaired. For Dr. Stresemann it was a week of triumph...
...Scot MacDonald who retired to his country home at Lossiemouth and took a hands-off attitude fortnight ago, when half-a-million Lancashire cotton operatives struck (TIME, Aug. 12), thus crippling Britain's largest export industry...
Successive British Governments have done their Rooseveltian duty ever since. True, by the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1922 the status of "Independent Kingdom" was conferred on Egypt; but Imperial Britain reserved the right to "protect" her "ally" by keeping a military establishment in Egypt and a veritable army of occupation in the Sudan. Duty might have been done along this line indefinitely but for two developments: 1) Egyptian public opinion has crystalized against British occupation so sharply that Deputies returned at the last election were almost solidly anti-British and King Fuad of Egypt (a British puppet) had to dissolve...
...week, as Prime Minister Mohammed sailed home to Egypt, the British Foreign Office released the text of the agreement which he carried, announced that it represents the "extreme limit" to which the Labor Government will go "to achieve a lasting and honorable settlement of the outstanding questions between Great Britain and Egypt...