Word: memorandum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the politicians of the Opposition, criticism was warped by anger. The Cesare Rossi memorandum-an indictment of Mussolini for having pre-sonally incited violence, by a Fascist under arrest in connection with the Matteotti murder-was frequently invoked and similar accusations were threatened...
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur prepared, for transmission to the House of Representatives, a lengthy memorandum on the state of the Navy, particularly in regard to gun ranges. The controversy over the vexing question whether we have the right to increase the angle at which our guns may fire (the Limitation of Armaments Treaty being the possible bar) has apparently been settled, at least within the Executive Department of the Government. Secretary Wilbur says that the State and Navy Departments agree that the Treaty does not prohibit gun elevation...
...Luigi Criscuolo, head of the Manhattan Branch of the Committee for Montenegrin Independence, sent a memorandum to the League of Nations at Geneva requesting justice from that body for Montenegro, forcibly annexed by Yugo-Slavia...
Points from the memorandum...
House of Lords. "DieHard" and hard-shell Peers attacked the proposed recognition of the Russian Soviet Government. Lord Emmott said that the British Government's well-meant gesture had received a contemptuous, almost insulting reception from Zinoviev (Chairman of the Third Internationale). He said that a Russian memorandum to a London financial group demanded a loan of ?20,000,000 to ?30, 000,000 as a condition of the return of confiscated property in Russia. Lord Curzon, onetime Foreign Secretary, charged the Soviets with backing Sinn Fein in Ireland, training Indian extremists in Moscow for the special purpose...