Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopting the resolution just quoted, the Assembly registered for posterity that in March, 1926, the foremost statesmen of Europe were not yet ready to take the final step designed to bring the Locarno Treaties into effect...
Deadlocked Giants. The intrigues of a fortnight ago, by which France and Britain strove to force the admission of Poland, the ally of France, to a permanent League Council seat, which would counter-balance the proposed German seat (TIME, March 22), had by last week assumed most discouraging proportions due to the tenacious refusal of the Germans to endure any such "balancing" against them...
...around these obstacles which would salve everyone's prestige. The stand which Brazil eventually took was, as a matter of fact, announced by her (and by Spain as well) when the delegates first assembled. Both Spain and Brazil were prevailed upon to abandon their blockade for several days (TIME, March 22), but at that time the Germans and French were unable to agree. Early last week Premier Briand and Dr. Stresemann blazoned it abroad that they were agreed upon one* of the many tentative "formulas" which had been concocted. For an instant the skies cleared...
...Foreign Minister, he continued to rely upon a Left majority favoring his conciliatory foreign policy. As Premier, he continued at the mercy of this same irresolute Left majority, which recently overturned his Cabinet (TIME, March 15) because it did not like his financial policy, yet besought him to form another Cabinet, next day, since no one else could do so. Returning from the World deadlock at Geneva to his own National stalemate, the exhausted Aristide told pressmen wearily that there was little to choose between the two. Then he smiled (no one knew why) and metaphorically plunged like a cheerful...
Meanwhile the Communists and the Socialists "stole" with all possible energy. They accomplished the first stage of what their enemies call "a gigantic legal theft" by whooping up 10,000,000 Germans to cast ballots calling for a national referendum (TIME, March 15) on the question of whether property belonging to the former German nobility and seized by the Republic may be retained without compensating the original owners...