Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young...
...Belgium shall now discuss the return of German property in Belgium, confiscated after the War, not yet liquidated...
...SCADTA (Colombian-German) received Chilean permission to extend its lines from Colombia to Arica, Chile. Thus SCADTA will parallel part of the Pan-American west coast route...
...Prague, of another Czech spy-a Czech working against his own country. Capt. Jaroslaf Falout, Czechoslovak general staff officer, carelessly left a suitcase in the cabin of a Prague-Berlin airplane. The contents of the suitcase were so interesting that he was immediately arrested, charged with being a German agent, charged also with the more lucrative, more prosaic crime of forging officers' leave permits...
Rosenstock to Metropolitan. Josef Rosenstock, 34, will succeed Artur Bodanzky as conductor for next season's German repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera. He will reach the U. S. in September, speaking little English. Since taking honors at Vienna's Academy of Music, he has held posts with the Vienna Philharmonic choir, the Berlin opera school, the Württembergische Landstheater in Stuttgart, the Wiesbaden Opera. Der Rosenkavalier with Mme. Jeritza, compatriot, whom he has never met, may introduce Herr Rosenstock to Manhattan...