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...friendship to Italy and an example of intelligent European policy. It serves also to point the rational way whereby, without any need ot diplomatic contortion and useless controversies, it is possible to solve practically and in a form satisfactory to everyone the problem of the Italian fait accompli in East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Might, Right & de Facto | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...them by further antagonism. It seems a pity that a break in athletic relations, no matter how minor, should occur between these two institutions now. Princeton can well testify to the unsatisfactory and inconclusive nature of this method of solution. On the other hand, abuse and impatience over a fait accompli brings the problem no nearer to a satisfactory conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Olive Branch | 5/14/1936 | See Source »

...government attorneys, and decided there. However, some protection of private property has been granted for the mean-time by Judge Grubb, before impetuous governmental authority completely crushed it. As has been demonstrated in the recent Gold Clause decisions, it is extremely difficult to decide a case negatively after a "fait accompli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHECKMATE | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Toward 4 a. m. things began popping in the uncarpeted downstairs bedroom where Elzire Dionne lay. "Ça me fait mal," she wept. Ovila Dionne surmised that his wife was complaining about the swelling of her legs. But the goodwives knew that Elzire Dionne was on the verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quintuplets | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...well as France are involved in the coming conference which will revise the Washington naval treaty. Concerning this, Japan has just politely indicated that she does not care to have the Chinese question on the agenda. Her recent demarche would indicate that she intends to treat it as a fait accompli. France, like the other powers, is not without Chinese interests, in Yunnan, as well as in Indo-China, and any undue increase in Japanese influence could only cause in Japanese influence could only cause uneasiness at the Quai d'Orsay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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