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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reactionary Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet League"). With the death three weeks ago of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, a statesman who always preached conciliation with Germany's enemies, the Hugenbergians pulled from their pockets copies of what they call their "Liberty Law." They felt that the time was ripe to present it to the German people for ratification by referendum. It provides: 1) "That the German Government take formal action toward the repeal of Articles 231 [confession of War guilt], 429, 430 [occupation of the Rhine] of the Versailles Treaty." 2) "That the German Government shall undertake no new burdens...
...Minister Julius Goembos read out to Parliament the preamble to his flogging bill: ". . . Whereas the penalty of imprisonment completely failed of effect in wartime, as the soldiers preferred a well-warmed prison to the discomforts of the trenches, now therefore. . . ." They will be flogged for offenses punished at present by prison sentences ranging up to ten years...
Augusto R. Leguia, President of Peru, learning that Rosa Vega, young Lima maidservant, had borne triplet boys, sent her a present of money, assured her his government would provide their education...
...make such replacement an object of bargaining. "If the Government really believes that a preponderance of the royal family in the Regency means danger to the country this discloses the Government's own ambition to rule in the Regency Council. Is a second dynasty to rule besides the present royal family? Domination of others than members of the royal family produces no happy results." Anxious Rumanians feared a grave crisis, the pitting of the Royal Dynasty against the Peasant Government, the raising of the issue whether Rumania might not be better off as a republic than with her present...
Lolly. Two flies, one mechanical and one temperamental, have long been present in the ointment of fashionable Manhattan theatre-goers. Mechanically, it is impossible to dine at 8 o'clock and see the first act of any play. Temperamentally, it is annoying not to know in advance whether the play will be sad or amusing, a problem or a diversion...