Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Limitations Parley* is developing into an Anglo-American struggle for supremacy. . . . Great Britain's attitude reveals her wish to remain the foremost naval power. . . . America says, rather hysterically, that .she will never be content with an inferior navy...
...thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power of the House of Lords. As a result the Cabinet met in secret session, to consider how the proposal-after having existed only a week-might best be scrapped...
...plans must not now anticipate the future destiny of Russia. . . . Our people deprived today of all liberties, alone have the right to establish the bases of their existence. It is they who will found the wealth, glory and greatness of Russian power...
...starts when M. Jon Bratiano* becomes Premier, and is not full rounded until he has resigned and then resumed that office. Therefore, politically sneaking, it was "January" in Rumania last week, for M. Bratiano had just resumed the Premiership once more. He has been absent from office-not from power-for some 15 months. To sketch the events of those months is to trace the orbit, perhaps the horoscope, of Rumania...
Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both. He and his brother Vintila, and brother-in-law Prince Babu Stirbey (intimate of Queen Marie) control the State. They dominate Rumanian banking, oil, manufactures. Their large estates are worked by peasants in a manner all but feudal. Because they have used their power to systematically exploit Rumania, a tide of public indignation periodically rises, and before it M. Bratiano resigns the Premiership, announces that he has "retired," and proceeds to lie in wait...