Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franco-Spanish peace negotiations with the Riffian Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan (TIME, May 10), were abruptly terminated last week when the Riffian Sultan, Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim, rejected a 48-hour Franco-Spanish ultimatum which demanded that he and his people acknowledge the sovereignty of the Franco-Spanish puppet Sultan of Morocco, Mulai Yusef, who resides...
Wazir Azarkhan dramatically informed the Franco-Spanish plenipotentiaries that Krim will continue to defy them, crying: "I am glad and happy of it! ... There is no justice in this world; I go back to resume command...
...appearances the excessively freedom-loving Riffi, each of whom is accustomed to guard his personal freedom with his own rifle, cannot be made to covet the blessings which might or might not flow in Morocco under a Franco-Spanish administration...
Since the War the Franco-German frontier has been as an imaginary wall, towering into the sky and shutting off air traffic not only between these countries but between Northern and Southern Europe, forcing all such traffic to be circuitously routed through the Netherlands. As everyone knows, this state of affairs has persisted because the French have bitter-endedly enforced the air restrictions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty, thus causing Germans to retaliate by closing their frontier to French airplanes and to confiscate all French machines forced down on German soil...
...audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should have ended with the slave girl's aria, the one big bit of unaffected melody. They waited eagerly to hear the ending written by Puccini's friend, Franco Alfano, from Puccini's notes, with which the Scala company is already prepared. They commended, meanwhile, the superb Turandot of Rosa Raisa, the creditable Prince of Miguel Fleta, the attractive, winning Liu of Maria Zamboni...