Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conferred the Most Exalted Order of The Star of India upon the Earl of Birkenhead, when he resigned as Secretary of State for India...
Correspondents found the Colonel in a state of extreme despondency. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 (TIME, March 31, 1924) he jocularly remarked that "the English in Palestine are no Angels"; but last week he appeared to have revised this opinion for the worse. Brooding behind his Muscovite halo of whiskers. Colonel Kook muttered, "The end is near! How can we endure that they desecrate the Wall...
...disposed of by M. Poincaré was an issue adroitly concocted by Socialists and Radicals. They pounced upon a budgetary bill which would permit the Government at its discretion to restore certain properties confiscated from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with an adroit blend...
...Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter the bill, and critics could like or lump. There was of course, he smiled in conclusion, not the remotest thought of uniting church and state...
...dictatorship of the Nationalist Party is proclaimed "during the present period of political tutelage"; but eventually elections will be held and the State transformed into a Republic...