Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to say where the future will lead. France and England may succeed in finding some formula which will secure a sensible solution of the reparations snarl while saving the faces of Poincare and Cuno. Or France may elect to break up the remnants of the Entente and pursue what she feels is the only possible policy in the Ruhr. It is even within the realm of possibility that in the end France and Germany should come into closer union than ever before in an industrial entente based on coal and iron...
With the passing of the Dillingham restrictive immigration bill, otherwise known as the Quota Law, everyone concerned with the flood of European immigrants sottled back with relief, hoping that matters had been finally adjusted. But now, it seems, the snarl is worse than before, and from the smoke around Ellis Island comes more than one tongue of fire. The law itself is to blame, for it states that three per cent of every foreign group now resident in the country shall form the quota of each nationality admitted--nationality to be determined by birth. It is clear, concise...