Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...
...Franco-U.S. tariff dispute (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) came to a definite if temporary head last week when Premier Raymond Poincare, functioning as Minister of Finance, caused a note to be written to Washington expressing France's willingness to revert to the status quo ante for U. S. imports pending the negotiation of a new commercial treaty...
...cordial reception accorded a German actress on the Parisian stage, as well as other straws in the wind, have shown an increase in Franco-German amity. But the dove of peace has not flown over the same route as that taken by the German troops in 1914, for that way went through Belgium. And Belgium, unlike France, shows no disposition to forgive. The latest indication of this comes in the news that the inscription in the new Library of Louvain: "Destroyed by German fury; rebuilt by American love," is to remain unchanged in deference to the wishes of the populace...
...recalls that after the Franco-Prussian War the statue of Alsace in the Place de la Concorde was veiled in black, but France had been the loser, while Belgium in 1918 was one of the conquering nations. Belgium's memory is perhaps so vivid she, like the British general in the Revolutionary War, would cease to exist after another such victory. It is nevertheless a novelty in ante-bellum relations to find the conquered nation attempting to bury the hatchet, while the conqueror earnestly digs it up again. And even if a complete acknowledgement be made of the justification...
...Mexico, Dwight W. Morrow of Manhattan (see The Cabinet). Next, Roy Archibald Young of Minneapolis was designated a member of the Federal Reserve Board, to succeed Daniel Richard Crissinger (resigned) as governor of the Board as soon as confirmed in membership. To fill vacancies on the Anglo-American and Franco-American commissions.š the President chose Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin and Underwood of Alabama, respectively, to succeed the late Senator Gray of Delaware and the late one-time (1895-97) Secretary of State Richard Olney. ¶ "For a number of years it has been our custom as a nation...