Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr von Eckardt, who headed the German delegation to the recent Arms Conference (TIME, May 11 et seq.), signed the convention for the control of international commerce in arms...
...Their lordships debated the important subject of Britain guaranteeing a treaty between France and Germany for the maintenance of the territorial status quo between them (TIME, Mar. 16 et seq., INTERNATIONAL). Lord Balfour for the Conservatives, Lord Oxford and Lord Grey for the Liberals, and Lord Haldane for the Laborites gave their blessings to what is called the peace pact...
...terrific heat wave greatly interfered last week with the prosecution of the war in Morocco (TIME, May 11, et seq.). Minor engagements were reported in the Spanish sector in the south, but nothing decisive was effected by any engagement. In general, the Riffians continued to dominate Fez* and Taza behind the Wergha River and a new offensive against the former was developing...
Rire, Paris comic paper, takes a slightly different view. In a double cartoon called Tracts et Tractions (Ideals and Deals), it shows a Communist in Paris holding the Communist paper L'Humanite and shouting Le Rif aux Rifains (the Riff for the Riffians). In the other picture is an Englishman in conference with a Riff and the inscription beneath runs: "... et, bien entendu, les mines de Ouergha á une société anglaise!" ( . . . and, of course, the Wergha mines for an English company...
...general situation in Eastern China remained, as it has for the past few weeks (TIME, June 15 et seq.), pregnant with ugly possibilities. The Chinese did a great deal of agitating. Foreigners took many steps to secure safety of life. Both sides engaged in desultory conversations which had no outcome. Strikes were maintained in practically all the seaboard cities. At Wukingfu, Kwangtung Province, one male and two female missionaries were beaten and knifed...