Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holland. Dykes, windmills were smashed, thousands of acres flooded. Into The Hague limped the tug White Sea, Captain Verscheor, master, famed tugster who pulled the 50,000-ton world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his...
Spain. The Teresa, the Orientil, the Beatrix, Spanish cargo boats pounded to pieces on the rocks of Cape Finisterre, more than 20 were killed.
Italy. Mountainous Atlantic seas crashing against the Spanish coast and the Bay of Biscay sent subterranean jolts across Europe, down the backbone of Italy to waggle seismograph needles in the Catholic Observatory in Florence. In Sicily, Mount Etna sputtered in mild eruption.
As a gentle overture to January's five power naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments...
"This assumption is no longer valid as regards states which are members of the League of Nations and parties to the Kellogg Pact. . . . In other words, as between members of the League there can be no neutral rights, because there can be no neutrals."