Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, was compelled to remain temporarily in or near the capital because of rapid naval disarmament developments. He. longed to get away to the usual British summer embassy at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Mass. French Ambassador Paul Claudel was likewise unable to escape because of the necessity of negotiating a postponement of the French debt settlement...
Debt. Most important problem of the week was France's debt to the U. S. A. matter of 400 million dollars is owed by France for surplus war materials, due on August 1 unless France should in the meantime ratify the Mellon-Berenger agreement for funding the whole French debt ($4,025,000,000). The French deputies, anxious to avoid ratifying any debt agreement at all as long as possible, ingenuously asked Prime Minister Raymond Poincare to request more time from Washington. Dutifully M. Poincare instructed Ambassador Paul Claudel to interview Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. Dutifully Ambassador...
Film Quota. Vital to U. S. business was the interminable debate on France's film quota law, a law providing that only four foreign films (instead of seven, as now) may be imported into France for each French film produced. U. S. film men, when passage of the law seemed certain several weeks ago, threatened to withdraw all films from France at once. French exhibitors, knowing their patrons' preference for U. S. films, immediately protested. The quota law hung fire...
...Fund sent his plane around the U. S. to focus attention on the development of aircraft and the need for municipal airports. The Fund sent Col. Lindbergh and his plane to at least one city in each of the 48 States to increase popular interest in aviation. When the French Flyers Nungesser & Coli disappeared while crossing the Atlantic westward (1927) Daniel Guggenheim gave $25,000 for an expedition to locate them. Last December he gave the Chilean Government $500,000 to establish full aeronautical instruction...
...would bring Oriental and Occidental cultures together and keep the earth forever at peace. The War and Russian turbulences balked him. So he went to the U. S. to find money, without which not even religion can spread. His reputation, which neither the U. S., British, German or French Who's Who yet record, went ahead of him to a few artists and mystics. They formed a circle which widened. Money came to Nicholas Roerich and his hopes. His acolytes created for him Corona Mundi (Crown of the World) International Art Centre, and gathered together a thin frame...