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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman has had a military convention with France to protect him since 1920. Until Locarno (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925, et seq.) he was trying desperately to get a similar military convention with Britain?failed. Then at Locarno he seemed to have obtained all he wanted, security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Locarno Found Wanting | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Amid a mild epidemic of measles and much general hilarity, the Duke and Duchess of York landed at Suva, Fiji Islands, last week from the cruiser Renown, on their way to Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.). The natives, their faces painted, their bodies caparisoned in grassy garments, received the King-Emperor's son with a tama, a prolonged, mournful and most honorable sound, a sound that begins as a grant, crescendoes to a bark, and ends with an exclamation resembling "WHOA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiji Fest | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Belgian Parliament (see INTERNATIONAL) to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments. While this propaganda was at its height, he announced to the Chamber that the first important measure to be presented by the Cabinet during the present session (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) will be a bill appropriating several billion francs for armaments and fortification of the Franco-German and Franco-Italian frontiers. Marshal Foch, appearing before the Chamber in full uniform, declared: "Germany is disarmed in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, but France must always be prepared against a nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Poincaré's Week | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Chinese Minister to Washington, Sao-ke Alfred Sze, reputedly cabled that he was ready to join the others in switching his allegiance from Peking to the Cantonese Nationalists who have captured the Southern half of China (TIME, Oct. 25 et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Puzzled Ministers | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Pater noster, qui es in caelis: sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pale Green Book | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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