Word: falkland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slavery in Ethiopia!'" ¶Raised a question so delicate that Foreign Minister Anthony Eden did not trust himself to reply verbally. The question: Is there any international convention which His Majesty's Government could invoke to stop the Argentine Republic from issuing stamps on which the "British" Falkland Islands are described as "Argentine." Replied careful Mr. Eden in writing: "The answer is in the negative." In Buenos Aires next day villainously mustached Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas in effect hissed that if that proud beauty Britannia continues to think the Falkland Islands are hers, that is perfectly...
Died. Sir William Lamond Allardyce, 68, onetime Governor of the Falkland Islands (1904-14), of the Bahamas (1915-20), of Tasmania (1920-22), of Newfoundland (1922-28); after lingering illness; at London...