Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That has more or less typified the condition of affairs since then. Occasionally she emerges from obscurity to do some formal act of governing, but by and large the former Governor, who holds no office, manages things at the Capitol. One of the first things done was to get a bill through the Legislature (TIME, Feb. 28, WOMEN) restoring to the former Governor the civil rights taken from him by impeachment...
Within the room an impetuous statesman (unidentified by the cables) brandished the initialed documents for all to see. They will be promptly submitted to the nations concerned, and formal signatures are to be exchanged in London about Dec. 1. Since President von Hindenburg and his Cabinet approved the agreements by telegraph before they were initialed, competent observers consider it cer. tain that the following treaties will eventually come into force...
When he at last entered the conference room to sign for Italy it is reported that the delegates greeted him with formal bows and stark official courtesy. This was made necessary by the fact that Emile Vandervelde, the Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, had announced that he would under no circumstances shake hands with Mussolini, whom he considers personally responsible for the atrocious murder of the Italian Socialist, Matteaotti (TIME, Oct. 19 et. ante), who was the close friend of Minister Vandervelde. It was felt that a scene could be avoided only by invoking an attitude of rigid formalism...
...hands of the Press, II Benito received not even formal courtesy. As a protest against Fascismo's actions in maintaining a strangling censorship on all Italian news and even expelling a foreign journalist from Italy, over 100 journalists, representing a majority of the chief newspapers of the world, completely boycotted Mussolini when he announced that he would read a prepared statement to the Press, but would answer no questions...
...Republican newspapers this was too much. Why, they wanted to know, had Defense Minister Gessler allowed the Reichswehr to participate, if the unveiling was "unofficial"? Herr Gessler declared that a formal pledge was given him that the ceremony would be nonpolitical, and stuck to that alibi. Said the Socialist sheetlet Vorwaerts: "The monument was unveiled in the name of William II. The President of the Reich gave the representative of William II precedence, and participated in a ceremony at which the Reichswehr was incited to a breach of its oath. The game of Feldmarschall-today-and -tomorrow -President serves neither...