Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Successive British Governments have done their Rooseveltian duty ever since. True, by the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1922 the status of "Independent Kingdom" was conferred on Egypt; but Imperial Britain reserved the right to "protect" her "ally" by keeping a military establishment in Egypt and a veritable army of occupation...
Like some pigmy umpire nervously staging a handshake between quarrelsome giants, small Norway last week brought Imperial Britain and Communist Russia into their first diplomatic contact in more than two years.
"Practical politics" demands that before the British Labor Government recognizes Soviet Russia, Moscow must give an air-tight pledge that any diplomats she may send into Britain will eschew Red propaganda. The British Liberals also insist on some sort of engagement that Soviet Russia will repay British holders of Imperial...
In Old Siberia (Amkino). A sly, shriveled fellow with the stealth of a fox and the cruelty of a eunuch arrives at a Siberian prison in the Tsar's time and begins to run things the way he wants them. The picture is not a story but a description of...
From the Polish border the tourists had come in a special train of mahogany-trimmed sleeping cars complete with electric fans and shower baths, relics of Imperial Russia. Impressed with the attentions of the Russian conductor, Heiress Bauer-offered him a small gratuity.