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...effect of the passing of the Italian debt settlement was to lay the way open for immediate and favorable consideration of other debt settlements arranged and pending before the Senate: the Belgian, Czechoslovakian, Esthonian, Latvian, Roumanian. Since the chief concessions were made to Italy, it called forth the major opposition of the Progressive Republicans and Democrats. Having won the major issue, the majority was prepared to press to easy victory in the minor events...
...following day in short order the House ratified five other debt-funding agreements. In only one case, that of Belgium, was there any material modification of the standard terms established in the first agreement, with England. In succession the Belgian, Czechoslovakian, Roumanian, Esthonian, Latvian agreements were voted...
MOSUL. The vexed question of whether the Republic of Turkey or the British-protected Kingdom of Irak shall hold sway over the oil fields and Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul (TIME, Dec. 31 et ante) was illuminated early in the week by the report of the Esthonian General Laidoner, sent by the League to investigate British charges against the Turks (TIME...
Turkish Atrocities of the perennially familiar type were reported by Laidoner, whose lack of sentimentality or easily shocked squeamishness is ably attested by the fact that he once ordered 130 Esthonian Communists shot in a batch because they were about to start a revolution...
...Justice at The Hague set Oct. 22 as the date to decide (at the request of the Assembly of the League of Nations) whether the League Council has authority to adjudicate the Mosul matter. Meanwhile the Council of the League despatched General Laidoner, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Esthonian Army, at the head of a League commission to investigate British charges that the Turks have been deporting Christians over the Mosul frontier...