Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ratifying the Anglo-Franco-Italo-Japanese treaty of 1925, upholding Rumania in her possession of the onetime Russian province of Bessarabia, now claimed by the Soviets-though without show of force...
Tingling little shocks rippled, last week, along the diplomatic cobweb that unites those wary spiders, the foreign ministers of the Great Powers. Cause: at Rome the Italian Government ratified, last week, the Franco-British-Italian-Japanese Treaty of Paris...
...There are main causes of the great struggle,--the Franco-German antagonism over Alsace and Lorraine; the Anglo-German antagonism about the fleet, and the Austro-Russian antagonism about hegemony in the Balkans. Of these three the last was by far the most important factor in producing...
...intransigeant, impetuous," Dr. Yanguas has stood so firmly on the letter of Spain's international rights that: 1) Spain quit the League of Nations after making politically impossible demands for a Permanent League Council Seat (TIME, March 29, 1926 et seq.); 2) In Paris, last week, a secret Franco-Spanish parley concerning Morocco broke down after prolonged negotiations...
...Port Natal turned out to fete him, then Pernambuco further down the coast, then Rio de Janiero. Back over the ocean, in Italy, an excitable press and populace rejoiced that a Fascist, "a messenger of Italianity," had duplicated the feat first performed in 1926 by the Spaniard, Ramon Franco...