Word: motta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Madame Motta, 83, cousin of President Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland; of heart attack, while in the confessional at the church of Bellinzona, Switzerland...
...last week and voted Germany within the League, but not until the minor nations concerned had protested the steam roller tactics of the great powers. The delegates continued amicably-minded while they elected Foreign Minister Nintchitch of Jugoslavia President of the Assembly but contention ensued thereafter. When Vice President Motta of Switzerland arose and moved the program, adopted by the League Council (TIME, Sept. 13), for the admission of Germany to the League, the resentment of the minor nations became sharply crystallized...
...President Motta of the Fifth Assembly said he was unable to promise when the session would be dissolved. He intimated that there was a possibility of its continuing into October...
...afternoon of the first day Giuseppe Motta, ex-President of Switzerland, was elected President of the Assembly. No other business was disposed of, but tremendous interest was taken in Disarmament and Security which are to be fully discussed questions during the present session of the Assembly...
...Seven" of the Fourth Convention are: Lord Robert Cecil, Britain; Fridjof Nansen, Norway; M. Motta, Switzerland; ex-Premier Hjalmar Branting, Sweden; President Cosgrave, Ireland; General Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa; Edouard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia...