Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better!" Allied Bulls Baited. The offer made by Dr. Schacht, which seemed to brand FAILURE upon all concerned last week, was in fact a pair of alternatives. The Allies could take their choice, and in either case they would get 15 billion dollars over 37 years. The first offer (which so enraged the French and British that they almost for got there was a second) provided that if Germany were granted "access to colonial raw material," preferential tariff treatment from the Allies, and "economic communi cation with the detached province of East Prussia, then the Fatherland would pledge unconditional payment...
...have passed since virtually every Government in the world received officially a copy of the plan outlined above. However, when the delegates were asked their opinions, last week, they nearly all sat silent. After a considerable pause General Alberto de Marinis, representing Signer Benito Mussolini, expressed approval for the first point of the plan only. "We stand ready to reduce our armaments," he said, "to any figure, even the lowest, provided all other nations do the same...
...tainted and unmentionable plan was and is, of course, the one presented by Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year, if all other nations would do likewise. Since then, plump, indefatigable Comrade Litvinov, who looks like a squirrel with a nut in either cheek, has been slowly learning that whatever plan he may offer will be pigeonholed, at least for some time to come...
...forbade laying on of the kiboko by private individuals; but this law, like U. S. Prohibition statutes, has suffered practical modification. Just as home brew may be brewed in comparative security throughout the U. S., so a white South Africander may kiboko his refractory blacks providing the kibokee is first stretched on the ground and covered with a blanket to protect him from embarrassing welts and cuts with which he might run to the District Commissioner...
...looking to neighboring Russia as a means of economic preservation, for should trade with that country be developed to a considerable extent, many of the men who are without work today would find occupations. England and France are keeping their commercial eyes on Russia, too, and at the first sign of a stable working arrangement with that country, all Europe would look to the Soviet Union as a market for goods that are not being sold fast enough in other places...