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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second major step of the Committee, last week, was taken by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht when he reappeared in Paris after dashing over to Berlin "so as to attend my daughter's wedding." Quite apart from discharging his duties at these nuptials, Dr. Schacht conferred long and earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hermann Muller. Accordingly he was able, when he returned to Paris, to mention for the first time a definite annual Reparations sum which Germany offers to pay. Although shrouded in official secrecy this offer was soon known to be 1,500.000,000 gold marks...
...power (Conservative), placid Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin could and would send all Great Britain scrambling to the ballot box at whatever time his advisers deemed least favorable to the rival parties (Laborite & Liberal). He might spring a "surprise election" in early May, or dawdle along until late June. So long as docile Britons are called to cast their ballots within the legal period of five years after the present House of Commons was elected (Oct. 29, 1924), good Squire Baldwin has as much liberty of choice as a Dowager Duchess deciding in July which hymns her servitors will sing...
People throughout the world last week looked and looked at pictures of "Captain Barker," the woman who long persuaded the British Army that she was Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, a "Mons man," a devoted husband, a first rate boxer (TIME, March...
...wooden bed. For 24 hours, last week, the Generalissimo tried out an "American bed"-with a crank and gadgets-then resumed his austere pallet. As he lay with fast-beating pulse, enduring alternate chills and fever, the man with the calm grey eyes would sometimes cast them for a long time on the richly embroidered Banner of all the Allied Nations, which hung above his head. Sometimes too he would call for his baton-the baton of a Marshal of France-and with the tips of his old fingers would caress along the shaft the hard and prickly stars...
Perfectly alert and mobile, the brain followed each move of the Mexican revolution (see MEXICO), as Mme. Foch read rapidly from latest editions of Le Temps. Ever and always the Generalissimo, her husband, who had long since lost all appetite, ordered his jaws to chew, his gullet to swallow, and so far as in him lay, his stomach to digest...