Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until very recently it was understood that the new line would be inaugurated by a handshake across the Franco-Italian frontier between President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. That would have been no more than appropriate-for unquestionably this de luxe Riviera route is of greater social importance than the trans-Pyrenean freight line recently opened by the King of Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation...
...summary follows: HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Kerness, g. g., Melia Stolimeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Medeiroa Des Roches, r.f.b. l.f.b., Hooker Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., Racley Rudd, r.h.b. l.h.b., Heas W. D. Carter, e.h.b. e.h.b., Scrammell E. C. Carter, l.o. r.o., Burton Carrigan, l.i. r.i., Kershaw Vogel, e.f. e.f., Howard Tatham, r.i. l.i., Franco Bodde, r.o. l.o., Tiffany...
...American Government feels, furthermore, that the terms of the Franco-British draft agreement, in leaving unlimited so large a tonnage and so many types of vessels, would actually tend to defeat the primary objective of any disarmament conference for the reduction or the limitation of armament in that it would not eliminate competition in naval armament and would not effect economy. For all these reasons the Government of the United States feels that no useful purpose would be served by accepting as a basis of discussion the Franco-British proposal...
...soothingly was this passage dwelt upon by bland British undersecretaries that the New York Herald Tribune's responsive Harold E. Scarborough cabled: "America's reply to the Franco-British naval compromise delivered to the Foreign Office at noon today, was greeted with relief by British officialdom. . . . So confused had British public opinion become over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily...
...particularly fine piece of "muddling through" was the passage in which Mr. Baldwin referred to invalid Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, who, just prior to his breakdown (TIME, Sept. 10), succeeded in thoroughly entangling and ensnarling Franco-U.S.-British relations with respect to disarmament (TIME...