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...face of le marechal Foch and you can guess all." Belgium. In addition to the conference with France there was an-other with Britain, the results of which were said to be important, but about which much reserve was evinced in official quarters. Britain. The so-called " Truce of God"- has given the Labor Government absolute power to back the Dawes plan. Premier MacDonald has been inflexible in his determination to seek an economic settlement of the reparations problems, and on this basis and that of the Dawes plan he met and rebuffed conflicting advances. His unbending attitude, strengthened...
...Truce of God" originated in the House of Commons and is the name of an agreement reached between Conservatives and Laborites. Premier MacDonald had stated his position on the Dawes plan when ex-Premier Baldwin was informed that the French Ambassador, Le Comte de Saint Aulaire, was in the Gallery. Mr. Baldwin wrote a hurried note to the Premier asking if it would embarrass the Government if he stated the Conservative point of view. The Premier nodded that it would not. Mr. Baldwin then arose and asked: " Is the right honorable gentleman aware that in his attitude he will have...
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...present instance. Yet the deep respect with which I regard the rights of Religion and Science, and my belief that there are others who also wish to mete out full justice, as far as possible, to the respective claims of these hoary old opponents prompt me to propose a truce, the Truce...
...about how, or when, or where this, or that, or the other thing happened in Biblical times, but it does matter what we believe about our God; nor does it matter what our reason may have to say about its enemy. Enemy? No, brother! Let there be a truce. DEAN WOOD...