Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preparatory Disarmament Commission* (TIME, May 24 et seq.) adjourned last week after approving the report of its Drafting Committee apportioning the work to be done by the various subcommittees (TIME. May 31) which will assemble and whip into shape the literally stupendous mass of data eventually to be acted upon by the Disarmament Conference. September was announced last week as the approximate time at which the Preparatory Commission will meet again to shepherd the activities of its various committees and subcommittees, whose preparatory labors are expected to continue for at least a year...
...Anglo-U. S. theory that disarmament must be confined to "actual" weapons, while at the same time allowing full investigation of the Latin nations' insistent proposals that "potential" weapons be also considered. As everyone knows, these divergent views have been loudly and publicly aired for months (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) by Viscount Cecil (Britain) and M. Paul-Boncour (France...
...conclusion of regional agreements rather than in an effort to work out a general plan for limitation applicable to the whole world." (Obviously this lines up the U. S. with the British rather than the Latin viewpoint, and recalls the "Geneva Protocol" (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, et seq.) by which the Latin nations hoped to "put teeth into the League." Britain, aware that the U. S. possesses an antipathy to joining a league whose "teeth" might become U. S. soldiers, sidetracked the Protocol, for which was substituted the "regional" Locarno security agreements. The Latin nations continue to protest that teeth...
Flag Decision. The new Cabinet has decided to retain temporarily the mooted "flag order" (TiME, May 17 et seq.), as a result of which the Luther Cabinet fell. A new or compromise flag will be devised and submitted to the Reichstag by the Cabinet; but until that is approved or rejected all German consulates (except at inland European towns) will continue to fly the merchant marine flag (greatly resembling the old imperial flag) as well as the ordinary banner of the Reich...
Plebiscite. June 20 has been set by the Cabinet as the date for Germany's long heralded showdown between the Monarchists and the Left parties: the great plebiscite (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) to determine whether the Reich may retain without compensation property seized from onetime German nobility and royalty...