Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Responsibility for the clash at" Ualual," (TIME, Dec...
...LOCARNO (Dec. 1, 1.925) set Europe off on a decade tinged with "pactomania." The Locarno Pact and sweet "Spirit of Locarno" (which assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
...ornate and gleaming New Delhi, the $50,000,000 Viceregal Capital, swarthy politicos of India's Legislative Assembly jabberingly debated last week the Gargantuan British bill-longest ever submitted to the House of Commons-which is to give India a new Status (TIME, Dec...
...provocation: Further bloody border skirmishes in Africa between intrepid Abyssinians and cocky Italian colonial troops (TIME, Dec...
Elected. Thomas Sovereign Gates, one-time Morgan partner, President of the University of Pennsylvania: to be President of the reorganized board of directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, thus ending the Stokowski squabble (TIME, Dec. 24) in Stokowski's favor...