Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patron-Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, but at Paris last week he yielded to his foible, omniscience, and spoke of international politics: "In Europe it is a tradition very rarely departed from, that when once a Foreign Minister, with the approval of his Cabinet, has made a commitment, ratification by Parliament may be taken for granted...
...debt account. Mr. Mellon cabled back that the U. S. would be pleased to accept the handout. The payment will be made on June 15, without prejudice to the ratification of the Berenger-Mellon debt-funding agreement which neither the French Parliament nor the U. S. Senate has yet approved...
...speak of the responsibility rather than the guilt for the World War, and this responsibility is divided," said Mr. G. P. Gooch, prominent British historical writer and former member of Parliament in an exclusive interview to the CRIMSON. Mr. Goode is the author of a number of prominent historical works including the "History of Modern Europe" and "The History of Historians", He is also joint editor of the British Foreign Office Documents 1898-1914. At present Mr. Gooch is delivering a series of lectures on war guilt at the Lowell Institute...
Historians wracked their memories for a similar incident in the whole chronicle of parliaments. The sensation at Belgrade, last week, cannot be put in words. Yet in the Balkans incidents almost as scandalous occur not infrequently. Therefore, last week, "nothing happened"-except that two investigations were started: one to plumb the alleged iniquities of the police; the other to apprehend those responsible for introducing a naked man into Parliament...
...Managua, the Capital of Nicaragua, President Diaz presented to Parliament for approval a proposed treaty with the U. S. While marines stood on guard about the Parliament House the treaty text was commended by a vote of confidence and cabled to Washington. It provides: 1) that the U. S. undertake to preserve peace in Nicaragua and the continuity of the Nicaraguan Government; 2) that accordingly the right of intervention in Nicaragua be extended to the U. S. by mutual consent; 3) that a U. S. financial adviser and receiver-general of revenues assume the task of rehabilitating the finances...