Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frenchmen naturally received the Cahill Report, last week, with marked distaste. They do not like to appear too prosperous. Their Parliament has not yet ratified the Franco-U.S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926); and their statesmen like to repeat that France is too poor to pay. Also negotiations are about to begin for the purpose of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). France wishes her statesmen to attend these solely on the basis that there shall be no scaling down of the reparations owed by Germany to War-devastated and impoverished France...
...grave an hour the young bachelor who may some day choose to call himself "King David"* might properly have pondered what his future is to be. Not much longer will the Empire rest content that he is without wife or heir. One may, with propriety, assume that last week the thoughts of David of Windsor turned repeatedly upon Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18, dark eyed and blooming daughter of the Marquis Douro, direct descendant of the great Duke of Wellington...
...have finished them," said "Papa" Joffre contentedly, "Only the other day I finished signing-initialing-the last of the 800 pages. I have signed each one. So there can be no mistake when I am dead, and they are published. I give the documents, the facts. Others may form their own opinions from them...
Second to quick step was the Podesta of Rovigno, small but flourishing Venetian city. His bid for the Dictator's favor was to install a visa system. Hereafter peasants who may wish to move in from the country to Rovigno must apply for a permit 15 days in advance and have it visaed by the Chief of Police. Implacable, the Podesta announced that such visas "will only be granted in case the residence of the applicant in Rovigno is considered necessary or extremely desirable...
Reputedly the engagement was broken because His Majesty, a puppet of Signor Benito Mussolini, now aspires to wed a Royal princess. If his fanatical Moslem subjects permit him to turn Roman Catholic he may espouse Princess Giovanna of Italy. If that much mooted match proves infeasible, the Moslem King might conceivably marry one of the Moslem daughters of His Majesty Fuad I of Egypt. Unquestionably any princess who marries King Ahmed Zogu takes her life in her hands and risks the imminent possibility that her husband may turn corpse...