Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he would willingly consider any proposals for the limitation of armaments which might emanate from the British Government. Proposals of this nature were made in the House of Lords, last week, by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Wood-row Wilson Peace Prize, who was forced to resign as British representative on the League of Nations because his advocacy of pacifism and disarmament was in advance of the British Government's position. That position was such that absolutely nothing was achieved when the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15, 1927) was convoked in Geneva...
Since the new Cabinet contains no Socialist minister it became necessary, last week, for the great Socialist Joseph Paul Boncour, who has been for the past four years Second (Acting) French Delegate to the League of Nations, to resign that post. Thus party loyalty and precedent deprived France and the League of their ablest liaison statesman...
...bald, rich Joseph Caillaux, onetime Prime Minister (1911-12) master intriguer among the Left Parties. Torpedoist Caillaux sank the Sacred Union by forcing four of its members, including Edouard Herriot, to resign in obedience to a caucus of their own party, stampeded by Demagog Caillaux...
...strove to realize, last week, that they and their Royal Family are free at last. Since the foundation of the Kingdom, in 1881, both people and sovereigns have obeyed, until last fortnight, a family of Dictators. The last of these, Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano, has now been forced to resign (TIME, Nov. 12); and last week saw the victorious leader of the National Peasant Party, smart Dr. Juliu Maniu, called upon to form a Cabinet...
...focused upon whether Prime Minister Maniu will be able to organize a sufficiently stable regime to obtain the vitally needed loan of which he so confidently spoke. That dicker, involving $250,000,000, was on the point of consummation by Vintila Bratiano, last fortnight, when he was forced to resign as Prime Minister...