Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain must now adjust numerous sore points with Germany. These undoubtedly will be attended to by "Van." What they are clearly appeared in London last week before the House of Commons adjourned until Oct. 29 with the ominous proviso that it may reconvene "on five days notice" in case of emergency-i. e., war. So grave do M. P.'s consider the European situation that they asked and received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy...
...week, and Captain Eden was understood to be preparing a reply of equal length. Across the Council's green table he and Fascist Chief Delegate Baron Aloisi were mutually affable and smiling. Over Mr. Eden's vehement protest, M. Alexis Leger of France secured adoption of a proviso that further decisions by the League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen are not in themselves operative but "subject to the political decision of the governments." For the first time since Sanctions were adopted, Baron Aloisi was heard to laugh. The conditional assurances of France, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Greece...
...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...
...secured its hold on the Little Entente, which has lately been looking toward Germany and Russia with sidelong interest. First of these to fall in line was Czechoslovakia, which last week signed with Russia practically a duplicate of the Franco-Russian Treaty of Mutual Assistance, with the proviso that neither is bound to assist the other if France does not. Furthermore, France has checkmated Germany for the present. And it has dislocated Britain's lofty balance-of-power role in the League of Nations. Last week M. Laval set out to articulate his future program for Eastern Europe...
...should they give the Saar now to Germany. To withhold it, many Geneva statesmen feared, would touch off a Nazi invasion to seize the Saar. Even the supremely legal mind of Sir John Simon was not attracted, as it normally would have been, by the Treaty of Versailles' proviso that the Saar may be split or diced up into as many parts as the Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give each part of the Saar what each part...