Word: si
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier considers his power appreciably bolstered by the plebiscite was seen last week when he telephoned King Alfonso XIII and asked if the monarch would pardon several artillery officers implicated in the recently suppressed mutiny against the Government (TIME, July 5 et ceq.). Replied King Alfonso over the telephone, "Si! I will pardon them." Forthwith the mutineers' sentences (one, the death penalty) were commuted...
...subsequently squelched, spread that the Archbishop would be prosecuted for sedition on account of the interview and might even be executed. The World's correspondent, Mr. Arthur Constantine, then proudly cinched his interview by obtaining from the 72-year-old prelate two huskily whispered sentences of touching import: "Si me toca morir en este conflicto, esta, den. Morire con gloria." ("If it be my turn to die in this conflict, very well, I shall die with glory...
...Franco-Spanish peace negotiations with the Riffian Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan (TIME, May 10), were abruptly terminated last week when the Riffian Sultan, Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim, rejected a 48-hour Franco-Spanish ultimatum which demanded that he and his people acknowledge the sovereignty of the Franco-Spanish puppet Sultan of Morocco, Mulai Yusef, who resides...
Formal peace negotiations began last week at Oujda, Morocco, between two Franco-Spanish plenipotentiaries (General Simon and Senor Olivan) and the Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan, of the long embattled Riffian Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim. (TIME, April 19 et ante...
...si! But il Papa sometimes grants dispensations...