Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speeches at the luncheon were ostentatiously decreed "secret"' by M. Briand, perhaps to heighten press curiosity. Copious "leaks" revealed however that statesmen-guests representing Belgium, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania ?the allies of France?said that they would favor establishment of a ''United States of Europe" in the form...
"The order is expected to enable the Government to obtain the services of some absolutely first class men [i. e. Laborites] hitherto unavailable."
Complacently the honest men smirked, but they did not relax. They knew that tart, vital words would follow the fulsome compliment. Two days previously Il Duce had given his Cabinet the most dramatic shaking up in the history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the...
* Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, Aviation, Colonies, Public Works, Corporation. *The fourth Quadrumvir is Count de Vecchi. He got no Cabinet post. Instead, some time ago, he received the imposing honor of appointment as the Kingdom of Italy's first Ambassador to the new Vatican City.
"I do not need to emphasize" he said, "that Koenigstein's population hails this day of liberation from the foreign yoke. How we have longed for the day! I must, however, declare that the British troops did not make life as hard for us as some French troops who were...