Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word, the representative of Brazil on the Council of the League, Senhor Afranio Mello Franco, announced last week that his government had "irrevocably and finally" instructed him to vote against the admission of Germany to a permanent seat on the League Council unless Brazil is given now a similar permanent seat instead of the non- permanent seat to which she was elected for a year (TIME, Oct. 5) together with Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay...
Tuesday. Although no French Ministry had yet been assembled, Senor Quinones de Leon (Spain) and Senhor Mello Franco (Brazil) issued implied threats that as nonpermanent Council members they would vote against admitting Germany to a permanent seat unless their nations were at once permanently seated...
...President Herriot of the Chamber departed on a visit to Lyons, of which city he is Mayor. The President of the Republic announced his intention of leaving Paris for a few days to open the Lyons Spring Fair. Finance Minister Doumer cabled to London and proposed to resume the Franco-British debt negotiations. An almost ominous optimism prevailed...
...correspondence of Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa.† who was so anxious about him that he should not grow up into...
...Paris the long expected Franco-Soviet Debt Conference got under way. Premier Briand gave it his benediction with the usual and now hackneyed invocation of "the Spirit of Locarno." There followed speeches slightly more to the point by the chief negotiators, the French Minister of Public Works and the Soviet Ambassador to France...