Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...markets for the two countries in the territories of the other. France scores by finding a greater outlet for the commodities of which she has a superabundance and at the same time facilitating the entry of products that are badly needed, a fact that goes far to favor the Franco-German industrial cartel. Germany wins several points: 1) She secured a much needed outlet for her industrial products. 2) She obtained equal trade treatment, which she did not expect. 3) She forced the French to reaffirm their renunciation, made at the time of the London Conference (TIME, Sept...
...several hundred different categories will soon be applied to U. S. products, and will therefore have an adverse influence on French imports from the U. S. on account of higher U. S. prices and the great shipment distances involved. U. S. businessmen in France were accordingly hopeful that the Franco-German Treaty will have the effect of hastening the conclusion of a U. S.-French treaty, which they feel is badly needed to protect their legitimate interests...
Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...
Citizens of the U. S. have been wondering, ever since the last advent of M. Raymond Poincaré as Premier (TIME, Aug. 2) just when this firm and foxy statesman would ask the Chamber of Deputies to ratify the Franco-U. S. debt accord (TIME...
Responding to an interpellation in the Chamber of Deputies, the Premier rapped out: "I do not propose ratification of the [Franco-British and Franco-U. S.] debt-funding accords, because I expect to get better terms; and because Parliament certainly would not agree to bind the country for the proposed term of 62 years...