Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...
...meeting in Washington which formed an American Red Cross Society, lobbied actively until the Senate had ratified the Geneva Convention which made the U. S. a member of the International Red Cross. This strong-willed little New England spinster had done relief work through the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. For 23 years she was the energetic, arbitrary ruler of the American Red Cross. In 1904 a minority of its members attacked her dictatorship, forced an investigation of her poor business management, caused her, amid bitter recriminations, to resign. Last week President Hoover, his extremely distant Swiss relative...
With the announcement yesterday that the Franco-German dispute over the legality of the proposed Austro-German Customs Union would be relegated to the World Court for an advisory opinion, the present economic situation in Europe has arrived at an interesting and significant phase in its development. Fundamentally it is a repetition of one of the factors which complicated diplomatic relations in 1914, economic jealousy between France and the Central Powers. At that time the friction contributed to the numerous causes for war then existing on the continent. Now the matter is to be settled by arbitration, and will rest...
...revelation to the general public of the extent of international commercial and industrial agreements. As M. Jean Parmentier of France pointed out, multi-lateral industrial pacts are the outgrowth of the bilateral entente and may foreshadow an important phase of international diplomacy. These unofficial ties, such as the Franco-German agreement among the electrical construction companies are potential instruments for the keeping of world peace, because peace means prosperity. Their importance must be recognized, particularly by the United States who professing to be international peacemaker steadfastly refuses to join with other countries in practical efforts to that...
Despite the fact that the proposed agreement was only temporary in nature, and offered little actual change from the naval relations as left by the Washington and London treaties, it would certainly aid the work of the World Conference to be held next year. The possible failure of the Franco-Italian accord would indirectly serve to magnify the existing distrust between the two countries, while England, through whom the agreement was originally drawn up, is new definitely on the side of Italy, and will do nothing more to patch the relationship. France, too, antagonized by the recent Austro-German customs...