Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cecil Hurst (Britain), M. Fromageot (France), Dr. Gaus (Germany), M. Rolin (Belgium), and Signer Pilotti (Italy)-they were the five. They were trying to arrive at a security pact that would settle Europe's boundaries, promote her peace, and enable her to disarm on land as well as sea. They were doing the work, so that in a few weeks the premiers or the foreign ministers of their countries could issue statements and put signatures to a specific document...
...story is drawn from certain episodes in the Nibelungen legends from which Richard Wagner fashioned famous operas. The forging of the sword, the search for the princess Kremhild; the pact to trick Brunhild into marriage with Kremhild's brother; and the death of Siegfried are chief incidents. The magic of ancient imaginations lives again in the magic of the modern camera as Siegfried wanders through the enchanted wood, slays the dragon, becomes impervious to weapon wounds, captures the web whereby he can change his shape at will...
...French note on the terms of the proposed security pact for several days lay in the hands ot M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to Berlin. Finally he delivered it to Herr Stresseman, German Foreign Minister. Why the delay had taken place was uncertain. M. Briand had secured Great Britain's Belgium's, Italy assent to it (TIME...
Apparently forthcoming developments are expected to be of delicacy equal to their importance. It is not unlikeliy that the negotiations for a security pact may be entering into their final stages...
...Caillaux has not the facility with la langue anglaise of his compatriot, M. Briand, who two weeks ago paid so amiable a visit to England concerning the proposed security pact with Germany. But the keenwitted French master of finance doubtless counts himself fully equal to the problem of dealing with Mr. Churchill on the question of France's debt to England...