Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there was the code incident. The French Government had for some years known the code used between the German Embassy in Paris and the Wilhelmstrasse (German Foreign Office). One day, so the story runs, M. Caillaux was in conclave with a German official. Said he: "Why should Germany refuse me this? I know the German Government has already instructed its Ambassador to grant it." Result: Germany changed the code, and France lost one of her most important defenses...
...anything, if payment is required, for some years. British bankers and business men, in memoranda and letters to Premier MacDonald, have said that no money could be sent to Russia unless private debts (amounting to nearly $2,000,000,000) and property are fully recognized, and a permanent civil code drawn up and the courts made independent of the Government...
...made famous in literature by the late Miss Yonge, and could cross, during his peregrinations, at least half a dozen boundary lines. Such places as Sagan and Liechtenstein were not names, but independencies, each with its own little ruler, here a duke and there a baron, and its own code of customs...
...review of "Confusion" by Mr. Code which appeared in a recent issue of the CRIMSON, was printed at the time with several omissions. It follows in entirety...
...English divorce laws are strict; in Italy there is no divorce; but when Gabriele d'Annunzio started to create a Paradise on the Adriatic in 1919, he decided that Fiume's code should be equipped with steam-heat, plumbing and hot water night and day. Divorce was blissfully easy. Early this year, Lady Marconi quieted two years of rumors of divorce by establishing a technical residence at Fiume and suing her husband, who was guilty of incompatibility of temper...