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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late King Edward VIIth's first automobile (a Daimler like George V's last) puffed and wheezed ahead of Captain Malcolm Campbell's 200-mile-an-hour Bluebird. There was a League of Nation's float and a Good Turn Truck on which a Boy Scout turned and flapped flapjacks...
...longed to go to Washington while in office but were prevented by "circumstances." Brief and in comparatively good taste upon this sour-grape theme was kinetic Liberal David Lloyd George. But turgid, bumbling Conservative Stanley Baldwin was long-winded, unsporting. He congratulated Mr. MacDonald on having "taken the first moment that had been possible in recent years to make his visit. It could not have been done by any Government until the actual time he went!" Mr. Baldwin even suggested, "although I am not greedy of power," that he or some other Conservative prime minister might in future make another...
Subsequent sharp querying of Scot MacDonald-especially by Welshman Lloyd George-confirmed two important if negative facts. The Prime Minister's answers revealed for the first time that he did not discuss the Anglo-U. S. War debt situation with Mr. Hoover, and that he has not given the President any assurance that in wartime the British navy will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that...
Like a Mark Antony come to bury Caesar, M. Briand reached his first climax by weeping with a purpose over Germany's late, great Dr. Stresemann, his colleague in striving for Peace and swift evacuation of the Rhine: "While he lived there were Germans who criticized and ridiculed Stresemann. Many called him traitor for his friendship to France! Now they heap flowers on his tomb. . . . The French Nationalists have attacked me, as the German Nationalists attacked Stresemann! . . . He died at his task. Must one die then, to prove one is sincere...
...First he telegraphed urgent orders that reserves should be rushed to the war section in Honan for a "grand offensive." Secondly, he wired that his armies would "sit composedly and starve the rebels out." Within 48 hours, and without previous warning, the President's field headquarters radioed: "The dead are piled mountain high. We have recaptured Mihsien" (25 miles from the vital rail junction Cheng-chow...