Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, Le Marechal Foch presented his report to the Council of Ambassadors (see Page 9). The Marshal tacitly admitted that, if Germany wished to arm, the Inter-Allied Military Commission could not stop her; hence it appeared to him that a defensive alliance with England-long a topic in London and Paris-seemed the logical way to provide for lasting security. This was an admission that the control machinery, set up after the Versailles Treaty was signed, was breaking down and that France's other allies (CzechoSlovakia, Rumania, Yugo- slavia, Belgium, Poland) were not strong enough to stay...
...saying: "One would think that Emperor Wilhelm would today somehow feel himself still connected with the fate of the German people and would join in the mourning when that Nation is overtaken by a loss for which Frenchmen and Englishmen express their sympathy. The Governments of Paris and London have condoled, but the German at Doom remains silent...
When the New York Reserve Bank raised its rediscount rate from 3 to 3 1/2 % (TiME, Mar. 9), financial London at once showed something nearly akin to excitement. If the pound sterling is to be put back on a gold basis shortly, gold shipments to the U. S. must be prevented; and the easiest way of doing this is to keep London interest rates higher than those in Manhattan. This, of course, tends to attract capital from the U. S. to the British center, and so support the exchange rate for sterling with U. S. dollars...
...contradiction with the statement made by Dr. Reisner that the tomb discovered by the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt was not the tomb of Sneferuw, the New York Times prints a dispatch from Cairo to the London Times saying that prominent Egyptologists agree that the Reisner Expedition's discovery is undoubtedly the tomb of Sneferuw, although the precarious situation of the shall makes accurate observation impossible. The dispatch to the London Times reads as follows...
...Winship '93, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection and Lecturer on the History of Printing, has announced that he will sail for Europe on March 14, to be gone for about three months. His first destination is London, where he will stay for ten days and attend two important book auctions in the interests of the University Library Thence he will journey to Florence where he will attend the International Book Fair which is soon to be held there...