Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more distant regions. Not but that he can get out of France without a passport, but he cannot legally enter any of the countries bordering France, which would seem to confine his movements to the high seas...
...ought to support Great Britain in her severance of relations with Russia (TIME, May 16 et seq.). Sir Austen succeeded only so far as to get Dr. Stresemann to give newsgatherers an unsigned interview in which he said: "It is a great pity that some citizens of Soviet Russia seem to be doing unwise things which strengthen the hands of their enemies...
...delayed to the September League Assembly all actions upon the nearly barren report of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Dr. Stresemann commented tartly upon this report last week. Said he: "Solution of the disarmament question, which appeared so simple a few years ago, would now seem to be definitely deferred. . . . Yet the very existence of the League depends upon a general reduction in armaments." Later in the day, M. Briand's "strawberry rash" became so severe that he hastily returned to Pans for expert treatment. The Council then dispersed, abandoning the Geneva scene to the Coolidge Naval...
...distinguished as World War General Baron Byng of Vimy. For example, the Earls of Oxford and Asquith, Balfour, and Birkenhead all received "remissions" of between ?2,255 ($10,813) and ?330 ($1,603), at the time of their creations. In the case of Viscount Byng, it would seem, someone in His Majesty's Treasury has blundered...
...Dawes Plan payments after the present (third) Reparations year quite as scrupulously as she has heretofore; 2) That the present German Finance Ministry (under reactionary Minister of Finance Herr Dr. Heinrich Koehler) is attempting to so juggle the German Federal Budget that a revision of the Dawes Plan will seem necessary. Criticism. Naturally Mr. Gilbert did not mention Dr. Koehler by name, but criticized the methods of his department sharply as follows: German budget estimates are unfortunately obscure in their method of stating transactions . . . lack clearness . . . [which is] both unnecessary and unfortunate. . . . The effect of all this procedure...