Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more daring members, seeing Italy being jumped on, had ventured to draft questions asking Britain and France why they have not deprived Japan, as a State now outside the League, of trade privileges which only League States are supposed to enjoy with British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria...
London and Paris have not cracked down on Tokyo, as their moral League duty requires, because of Japan's effective Might. At the Commission last week Dr. Ito blazed, "Japan has an inherent Right to equal treatment," with League member States in trade with Palestine, Syria and other mandates...
...gold and clever dealings. Seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines gave him ample opportunity to speak authoritatively on that subject. His reorganization of the internal administration of his kingdom; his wise utilization of the control of the caravan routes that led from Egypt and Arabia to Phoenicia and Syria; his great commercial undertakings as middleman and carrier; his zeal for monoplies; and all in all with his faith in the Lord laid the foundations of his vast national wealth and showed his people and the world that indeed here, as the scriptures says...
...pert Novelist Colette; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in the Champs Elysees, where his body was found; in Paris. He distinguished himself as Ambassador to Italy in 1933 by getting Benito Mussolini's signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight years ago Henry de Jouvenel predicted that 1935 would find Europe on the brink of another...
Australia, Eatonia, Siam, and Syria, among others, are represented in the University by students this year, according to figures compiled by Phillips Brooks House. Canada, with 29 students, has the honor of having the largest delegation, while England is matched by China for second place honors, each country sending...