Word: corfu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered...
Bold barons of finance afloat on a huge white yacht. Big names: Sir Alfred Mond "Biggest British Chemist," Irénée du Pont, and many another. Germans the hosts. Secret talk about nitrates. The yacht steams down the blue Adriatic from Venice to Corfu and returns. Meanwhile banqueting to tempt Lucullus. Scuppers running with champagne. But always more and more earnest talk of nitrates. The whole junket an achievement in making pleasure implicit with business...
...people can harm Italy. When Tyrol was incorporated into Italy in 1919, the only reason given was the advantage of strategic frontier. Mussolini has taken this as an opportunity to show European countries that he means business. This pooh-poohing of the League is also shown by the Corfu incident...
...Associations Except for the doubtful precedent of The Hague, which proved to be not even an annoyance to the activities of Mars, the League has been forced to learn solely through its own mistakes. The Russo-Polish War, the Upper Silesla affair, the massacre at Smyrna the occupation of Corfu the Geneva protocol the Greco-Bulgarian frontier altercation, and the squabble during last year between Brazil and Spain have been the annual causes of "I told you sols" from the irreconcilables of post-bellum days: largely because the meetings of the League to consider problems have been too tardy...
...addition, Navy monuments will be erected on the Island of Corfu and on the rock of Gibraltar...