Word: clauzel
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...Mandates Commission of the League of Nations convened under the presidency of the Marquis Alberto Theodori and received the report of France touching her administration of the mandated territories of Syria and Libya. Count Robert de Caix, Secretary-General of the French High Commission in Syria, and Count Gaston Clauzel, Director of the French Service of the League of Nations, did their best to explain why the French bombarded Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9). The session was naturally behind closed doors, but attentive listeners heard enough to evolve the catch phrase: "For the first time in history a Great Colonial Power...
Representative Burton (U. S.), M. Clauzel (France), Lord Onslow (Britain), Herr von Echardt (Germany) and numerous others said in effect: "At last we are marching along the road of peace...
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