Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greeted with relief by British officialdom. . . . So confused had British public opinion become over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily constructed and phrased diplomatic document that has come from Washington for a long time, and that it deserves rank as a masterpiece...
Though Edward of Wales often goes about unrecognized, and although Motorist George V has had several encounters with stupid traffic policemen, London editors could not recall that Queen Mary has ever before escaped recognition or suffered pert speech from one of her female subjects...
...British Admiralty chose last week as the time to announce that it has let a ?7,750,000 ($37,665,000) contract for the completion of the British naval war base at Singapore to the firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., of London...
fears twinkled in the eyes of King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week. He was standing in Euston Station, London. He was listening to Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the Marquis de Merry del Val.* As he listened, the tears trickled down his olive cheeks, and correspondents counted three...
...Majesty who was returning to Spain from Scotland via London, immediately ordered a special requiem mass at St. James's Church, and had his condolences telephoned to his people in Spain...