Word: curzon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words of Lord Curzon to the Imperial Conference in London, passive resistance in the Ruhr has been supplanted by passive assistance. The towns of Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Witten, Horde, Bochum, however, recognized the legality of the Ruhr occupation by agreeing to pay their quota of the occupational costs to France and Belgium. In other places expulsion by the French of resisting population continued...
Foreign Policy. The greatest event in the week was the three-hour detailed report by Lord Curzon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on foreign policy, part of which was not published by order of Premier Baldwin. The published part of his speech concerned mainly a review of the Ruhr problem and of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME, Aug. 6). He doubted that Germany would be able to pull through her present chronic ailment and said that "the internal disruption of Germany which we had all along feared, but which we had consistently been told to regard as a bogy...
...English have become more and more condemnatory of France. Whether a dearth of Ruhr trade and flattened English pocket-books have given rise to this attitude is a nice point for speculative minds. At any rate, that this attitude now exists ins an establish of fact, especially since Lord Curzon's vigorous message on the subject sent to Premier Poincare a few weeks ago. America, though assuming the pose of the onlooker with his feet well out of all dust and dirt, is perhaps inclined to favor the French action. Therefore each side in the debate this evening will voice...
Parliamentarians are likewise absent. Premier Baldwin and Marquis Curzon are in France. Lord Balfour and Mr. Asquith are resting in the country. Many others are in Denmark attending the Interparliamentary Union. Mr. Lloyd George is reputed to be playing golf...
...days ago The New York Times published the full text of Premier Poincarée's reply to Lord Curzon's note on reparations. The text as printed covered 13 columns of the newspaper (about 15,000 words). As it was transmitted in " skeleton " telegraphic code it consisted of 10,644 words...