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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Council of the League of Nations met-"without movie arcs"-and found itself still completely deadlocked as to whether Germany alone should be given a permanent Council seat,* or whether Poland, Spain, Brazil or some other Minor Power should be permanently seated likewise (TIME, March...
Monday. At Geneva, the Assembly of The League of Nations met beneath the glare of "movie arc lights," and chose Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, to chairman a committee created to pass upon Germany's "credentials" and report (perfunctorily, of course) upon the eligibility of Germany to enter the League...
...Council thereupon met in secret without the Germans. Sir Austen Chamberlain was alleged to have completely lost his temper, and roundly berated Dr. Unden with "violent threats." When the session broke up "the Terrible Swede" issued forth "with jaw set, and eyes gleaming with anger." He was alleged to have declared "Sir Austen's language was the most disgraceful I have ever experienced. I will not change my point of view or my stand. My instructions are specific to vote against the admission of any nation except Germany to a Council seat...
...accomplished statesmen met as they strolled about the great Spring Fair at Lyons last week. One was the bland and moon-faced M. Christian G. Rakovsky, Soviet Ambassador to France. The other was the vital, curly-haired Mayor of Lyons, M. Edouard Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies, former Premier, and still leader of the most potent political bloc in France, Le Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties...
...first Mrs. Akeley was Delia J. Denning of Beaver Dam, Wis. She accompanied Mr. Akeley to Africa in 1905, three years after their marriage; again in 1909, when they met Theodore Roosevelt's safari. She learned to shoot expertly, killed the biggest elephants both trips. On the second trip, she saved her husband's life on the "elephant-infested" slopes of Mt. Kenya where he had been gored by a bull pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went...