Word: britain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Completed last week was the U. S. delegation to the five-power naval conference at London next January. To join Statesman Stimson, and Senators Reed and Robinson (of Arkansas), President Hoover appointed Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Ambassadors Charles Gates Dawes (Britain), Hugh Gibson (Belgium), Dwight Whitney Morrow (Mexico). Likewise he smoothed out a case of hurt pride when he induced Rear-Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, to accompany the U. S. delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling...
...from newspapers of the Labor Government's most important act of the week: notification to the German Government by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden that he will not return to the Reich a surplus of $60,000,000 left over from the liquidation of German property seized in Britain during...
...allied countries except Great Britain, Canada, Australia and the Irish Free State have made such restitutions. Notably the U. S. has paid Germany $300,000,000. The British Dominion of South Africa has made a separate settlement with the Reich, ignoring the British Conservative policy of "no restitution" which Laborite Philip ("Spongecake") Snowden is carrying...
...Lady Astor, famed for Parliamentary courage, canceled an engagement to fly with 100 members of both Houses of Parliament last week in Britain's new passenger dirigible R-101. Into the Noble Lady's breach stepped Labor's Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, M.P. Then rain canceled the flight...
...citizens, 5%; Germans, 4%; Japanese and British, 3% each; French, 2%. Such a scale should provoke the thought of those who rate low. Author Thompson's study embraces the following danger spots: Japan, China, Australia, the Western Pacific, India, South Africa, Italy, Central Europe, Great Britain. They are dangerous because "it so happens that the peoples who are already feeling keenly the need of new lands and resources are also the ones who are likely to have large increases [in population] for the next few decades," and "never has any previous civilization shown a rapacity that compares even remotely...