Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Newsgatherers wrote glibly for a day about "The Entente of Leghorn." They hinted profoundly at a dark deal between Sir Austen and Il Duce to "counterbalance" the Franco-German "Entente of Thoiry" (see p. 14). Then Sir Austen climbed into a wagonlit, sped to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand, returned to London. By common consent the correspondents decided that all bets in favor of an "Entente of Leghorn" were...
...been accepted Dr. Stresemann's cigar had burned to a well-mouthed stump and he discovered that he possessed no other cigars. Foreign Minister Briand of France, resourceful, smilingly proffered a packet of French cigarets from which Dr. Stresemann selected one without enthusiasm. Upon this tableau of Franco-German concord Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain (as lean as M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann are fat) cast a thin but approving smile...
...importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration was despatched, are, of course, signatories in whole or in part* to the Act of Algeciras (1906), delimiting the foreign spheres of influence in Morocco. By the supplemental Franco-British-Spanish Convention of 1923, the permanent neutrality of Tangier has been established and the city placed under the control of an international commission whose members are the eight local consular officers of the Powers adherent to the Act of Algeciras. Therefore, the Spanish declaration of last week re-opened...
...week's political sensation was a proposal by Deputy Outrey that France cede Cochin-China to the U. S. as payment in full for the Franco-U. S. debt...
...Pulitzer air races. Hearing that Engineer Igor Sikorsky was building monster trimotored planes on Long Island for long-distance flights, it occurred to him to inquire about a trans-Atlantic flight, primarily as a sporting proposition; secondly, to promote aviation by scientific accomplishments; thirdly, as an afterthought, to promote Franco-American goodwill. Engineer Sikorsky consented swiftly and bonded himself for $40,000 to a group called...