Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later in a message to the Chamber of Deputies' Finance Committee M. Painleve explained that plans to fortify France's northern and eastern frontiers will take five more years to complete, cost a hundred million dollars. Wrote...
...artillery equipment. "Not only are old forts being brought up to date, but new works are to be constructed as close as possible to the frontier . . . especially in the newly recovered territory. The most important features of the plan will be executed within 18 months. "I wish to take this opportunity to reassure Deputy Serat concerning researches and experiments which the government is making with respect to chemical and other advanced methods of warfare. They are being actively pressed by French scientists." In Nottingham, England, last week wiry Welshman David Lloyd George, suffering from a bad cold, said the MacDonald...
...opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers were black bordered, Stresemann's seat in the Reichstag was draped in black, his desk piled high with flowers, but the instinctive reaction of editors and public alike was "Who in Germany can take his place?" Said Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts: "The problem of finding a worthy successor to Dr. Stresemann is one of life and death to Germany...
...NEWS OF DR. STRESEMANN'S DEATH HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE THE HELM AND ACTIVE LEADERSHIP IN THE NATION TO AVOID CRISIS...
...extreme limit" to which it can grant Egyptian independence, hypothetically granted in 1922, Mme. Garzouzi's voice shivered and swelled. Said she: "Never trust an Englishman's promise or agreements where British interests are at stake. . . . Who, knowing them, would be so foolish as to take them seriously? Not we Egyptians surely. . . . The Labor Government-the MacDonald-Henderson-Snowden-Thomas lot-is the most hypocritical. . . . We were dragooned [by the Conservative Government in 1922] into signing an agreement which binds us to surrender our liberties for another 25 years. . . . They promised to take British troops out of Egypt...