Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finance Minister Count Volpi entered the Chamber and crossed with quick nervous strides to the Ministerial Bench, where Premier Mussolini awaited him. The Premier shook his hand with vigor. The Deputies rose to their feet and cheered him. From the public galleries as many cives Romani as could squeeze in roared their approval of the Volpi-Churchill Italo-British debt settlement (TIME, Feb. 8, COMMONWEALTH...
...Count Volpi ascended the Tribune, spoke: "No nation has been vanquished and no nation has been victorious in our debt agreements with England and the United States. [Loud cheering, since the Italians consider Count Volpi, if not 'victorious,' extremely 'successful.']... With the fluctuations of the exchange, Italy's War debts once reached a figure almost ten times larger than that at which they are now set.... Our foreign liabilities are (theoretically) completely covered by German reparations under the Dawes plan...
...Count Volpi returned to the floor. Of the deputies, 224 voted to adopt the Italo-British settlement. One Communist Deputy voted contra populum. With unusual magnanimnity his Fascist peers forebore to assault...
...world is stony and studded with thorns as well as gold. She attends a vast banquet in the Hall of a count's castle, she becomes the bride of an emperor. And at last she faces death and revolution (black and red) and the winter night, cold and miserable...
Orphan Kato's career. After graduating from the Imperial Tokyo University, he became the personal secretary of the then Foreign Minister, Count Okuma, and gradually rose through numerous posts in the Finance and Foreign Ministries until he was appointed Minister and then Ambassador to Great Britain. It was he who signed with Sir Edward Grey the Anglo-Japanese compact which brought Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. During his career he served as Foreign Minister in three cabinets, and was often referred to as "the least sympathetic of Japanese statesmen toward the U. S. exclusion policy...