Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gathered excitedly in unusual numbers and commenced august debate when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin suddenly put forward its long mooted and highly reactionary proposal to "reform" the House of Lords...
...atmosphere tense with Anglo-U. S. suspicion and discord characterized the sessions at Geneva last week of the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
...Smiddy, dynamic, told convincingly that new Ireland is rushing forward much in the manner of new Italy. "Forty-nine new factories have been created within 24 months. . . . Fourteen thousand houses have been built or are building, and $7,500,000 has been expended to better housing conditions ... By the Land Act of 1923 very many farmers were enabled to purchase the land they had been working under favorable terms. Thus the last vestige of landlordism has been removed...
...Germany has made all the required payments . . . promptly when due, exactly in conformity with the agreed arrangements . . and deliveries and payments for the benefit of the creditor powers have gone forward regularly and without interfering with the stability of German exchange...
...Locker-Lampson (answering amid hubbub a Conservative question as to how relations with Rus sia may be resumed) : "The initiative should come from the Soviet Government, whose hostile activities compelled the British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign Office refused to issue passports to five children, nominated by British...