Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented by Lawyer Millerand the case of Lawyer Colby was indeed touching. He had, it seemed, "suffered agonies from the capricious treatment" of Mrs. Colby. She was represented as a "fantastic novelist" who had ridiculed in her works both Mr. Colby and the late Warren Gamaliel Harding. Cried M. Millerand, "she has driven her husband to seek refuge in France, here to obtain freedom and the opportunity to begin a new life...
Coldly the Court considered. Meticulously it ruled: ". . . Whereas, the French tribunals are in principle incompetent of acknowledging divorces between foreigners; and whereas it does not appear that M. Colby moved his domicile to France but that he inhabits in fact a house placed at his disposal by a friend . . . for these reasons this tribunal declares itself incompetent...
...remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience. Last week, at Manhattan, Poet Max Eastman returned good for evil by making public a letter from Russian Communist friends purporting to reveal, for the first time, precise details of M. Trotsky's enforced setting out from Moscow (TIME...
Motoring from Nice to Monte Carlo, Prince Carol conferred there with the one Rumanian who can conceivably set him upon the throne, M. Juliu Maniu, doughty Leader of the Rumanian Peasant Party (Opposition). At peasant mass meetings throughout Rumania, M. Maniu has furiously denounced the Government of Premier Vintila Bratiano and skirted treason by dark hints against the Regency. That the leading opposition statesman should thus journey all the way from Bucharest to Monte Carlo for a conference with Prince Carol gave an aura of importance, at last, to that loose-lipped, irresolute young...
...sooner did Prince Carol arrive in Nice than M. Titulescu, desiring to avoid all contact with him, moved himself and suite across the border from French Mentone to nearby Italian San Remo. Good natured Dr. Stresemann then kept the negotiations going by motoring back and forth between these neighboring towns. Prince Carol, not provided with papers permitting him to enter Italy, could not and possibly did not desire to make contact with the Foreign Minister of the Rumanian Government with which he is at odds...