Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government of the United States has received from His Majesty's Government a communication summarizing the understanding reached between the British and French governments as to a basis of naval limitation. . . . Unfortunately the Franco-British agreement appears to fulfill none of the conditions which, to the American government, seem vital...
...Franco-British agreement provides no limitation whatsoever on six-inch gun cruisers, or destroyers, or submarines of 600 tons or less. . . . Such cruisers constitute the largest number of fighting ships now existing in the world...
...subjects other than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan? "I am not an expert on financial situations," he said. What did he think about the Franco-British naval treaty? "I am not the Foreign Minister," he said...
...Three Frenchmen crossed the Franco-Italian border. Italian border guards, speaking Italian, stopped them, asked for credentials. The Frenchmen, speaking French, presented them. The guards, leeming their words derogatory to the regime of Signor Benito Mussolini, arrested them; fined two, imprisoned...
Kings and Dictators are never surprised. Neither would have turned a hair had they seen President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic standing on the other side of the Franco-Spanish border, which bisects the Tunnel. Indeed they did see M. Le President standing there, plump and pink, and wearing a monocle, which he has recently and surprisingly adapted into his ensemble...