Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral prestige of King George was associated last week with "The Deal" to make peace in Ethiopia by giving Italy approximately half that Empire (TIME, Dec. 16). With no subsequent tut-tutting from courtiers, Associated Press put on the world's wires that in highest circles His Majesty was believed to have strongly urged (if he did not command) Captain Anthony Eden, Sanctionist Extraordinary, to assist in making peace quickly by means of The Deal and to desist at Geneva from trying to put through further sanctions...
...Naval Conference at London, deadlocked from the day it opened (TIME, Dec. 16), whiled away last week listening to Japanese Admiral Nagano's demands for a navy at least as large as that of the U. S. and Britain. U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis worried over rumors that behind the scenes the Japanese were getting somewhere in bi- lateral, sub-rosa dickering. Overoptimistic Japanese correspondents in London gave their countrymen hope that a 5-4-4 naval ratio might just possibly be wangled with Britain at 5 and Japan and U. S. trailing as naval equals...
...Benes in the election Dec. 18. Since the wreck of the Habsburg Empire was in no small part the work of Dr. Masaryk, in Vienna last week the Neues Wiener Tagblatt exulted with Restorationists: "The foes of the Habsburgs pass! Lloyd George, for adequate reasons, was sentenced to political obscurity long ago. Wilson, Poincare, Clemenceau and Foch are dead. Masaryk has resigned...
...Cuban politics a zero hour came last week when opponents of provisional President Carlos Mendieta hired suburban Havana radio station CMQ to criticize the new electoral plan devised by Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds (TIME, Dec. 16) and radio station COCO announced a speech in praise of the plan to be made by the Chief Executive. Day of the speeches the Communications Department ordered CMQ to cancel its anti-Dodds speech...
...been reorganized, with the result that many of the less competent players are absent. In the chorus there are new youthful faces. The stodgy old ballet has been replaced by the new U. S. organization founded two years ago by Lincoln Kirstein and Edward M. M. Warburg (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). More care has been given to scenery, costumes, lighting...