Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there was insufficient substance. Not the old Puccini at all, it seemed, until the concluding love duet and finale which was not his but his friend's, Franco Alfano's, who wrote it after his death...
Though Ferdinand Foch was all but unknown in the U. S. prior to the World War, he enlisted as a private in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and later, after attending the War College, became a professor there (1894) renowned for the soundness of his matter and the brilliant originality of his presentation. He developed a veritable "school" of French officers who gave unusual attention to that evanescent factor which was to prove so vital when the War came: morale...
With Parliament due to assemble on or about Oct. 24, Premier Poincaré announced last week a new formula under which he hopes to get the Franco-U. S. debt pact past the ever recalcitrant Chamber of Deputies...
...idyllic calm marked the Cabinet session at which Foreign Minister Briand reported upon his tentative negotiations with Foreign Minister Stresemann of the Reich at Thoiry (TIME, Sept. 27). M. Briand, apostle of international concord, secured from M. Poincare, exponent of militant French nationalism, acceptance in principle of the proposed Franco-German compromise: 1) France to evacuate the Rhineland in 1927, return the Saar to Germany in 1928, and withdraw all opposition to the purchase by Germany from Belgium of Eupen and Malmedy; 2) Germany to transfer to France for these concessions four billion francs ($100,000,000) to be realized...
Correspondents who had come to hear the doom of Thoiry, went away declaring that Premier Poincare would attempt to secure passage for the Franco-U. S. debt pact when the French Chamber reas- sembles next month but would seek to make the ratification conditional on a transfer safeguard clause being conceded...