Word: senors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With laconic precision, the King declared the new Assembly open. The Dictator thanked the King for attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building. Senor Jose Maria Yanguas, onetime Secretary of State, was chosen President of the Assembly and made the opening speech, in which, as he was bound to, he lauded Dictator de Rivera...
...most astounding development in the situation was a statement from President Calles to the effect that he knew all about the plans for the revolt months ahead of time. According to Senor Calles, he forbore to act in the hope that the plotters would renounce their treasonable intentions. He admits that he could have prevented the rising, but did not act out of a desire "not to cast doubt on the members of the army whose decorum I was eager to save...
However, it was pointed out that Senor Calles probably played a waiting game. In other words he waited until the conspirators actually incriminated themselves and to that end gave them enough rope to hang themselves, so to speak. It was hardly possible for him to act before, for prosecution on the mere strength of the evidence he had would have laid him more than ever open to political partisanship in connection with the elections next year, the campaign for which was the basic cause of the revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping...
President. The assembled representatives of member nations of the League of Nations elected by a majority of one vote Senor Alberto Guani of Chile, President of the eighth Assembly. Count Albert Dietrichstein Mensdorff-Pouilly of Austria was thus narrowly de- feated. Past Presidents in order of incumbency: Paul Hymans, Belgium, 1920; Herman Adriaan Van Karnebeek, the Netherlands, 1921; Augustine Edwards, Chile, 1922; Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza, Cuba, 1923; Giuseppe Motta, Switzerland, 1924; Senator Raoul Dandurand, Canada, 1925; Mont-chilo Nintchitch, Jugoslavia...
...Said he: "I can say that relations with the United States, which are so fundamentally important in our national life for patent reasons of commercial intercourse and neighborliness, unfortunately assume a character of indecision, frequently resulting in disagreement." Making it clear that he was referring to foreign oil investments, Senor Calles remarked that some petroleum men had assumed a rebellious attitude to the Government that "no independent country could accept," adding that foreigners must accept Mexican laws and not expect more than the rights of Mexicans, "who are the indisputable owners of their country." He claimed considerable success...