Word: londons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard it may prove for the politicians to come to an agreement strikingly appeared last week at London, where the Young Plan was mercilessly flayed by David Lloyd George, balance-of-power man in British politics...
...treated .... I agree with Mr. Lloyd George's statements. . . ." Although tacitly admitting that circumstances would probably oblige the empire to stomach the Young Plan, Chancellor Snowden militantly added that at The Hague he would make one paramount demand: The new International Bank of Settlement must be located in London...
Some potent Britons evidently feared last week that Manhattan might get the bank. "Will Wall Street Swallow Europe?" editorialed Viscount Rothermere. publisher of one of the world's largest newspapers. London's Daily Mail. Over his own signature Tycoon Rothermere warned, "Wall Street has become another world power, with more authority than the League of Nations, with more subtlety than Bolshevism...
...small roly-poly porpoise sporting pompously in a pool would not be happier than was Egypt's plump, glistening little King Fuad in London last week. For four years His Majesty and his ministers on the Nile have been dictated to, nay openly bullied, by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, sleek, superior Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Last week, in humiliating circumstances, the High Commissioner was forced to resign by his own Government, which at first withheld public explanation. In the House of Commons a teapot typhoon of invective rose...
...with the Labor party's ideas of what constitutes fair treatment of Egypt; 2) that the High Commissioner had long insisted on a more domineering policy than was approved by even Sir Austen Chamberlain, lately Conservative Foreign Secretary. Upon receipt of the Henderson telegram, Baron Lloyd had hastened to London. Mr. Henderson said last week that after a "friendly talk" they had agreed that the resignation should be tendered and accepted. "All went well," concluded the Foreign Secretary with a wink which the House did not miss, "all went well until his Lordship had an interview with the former Chancellor...