Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Lausanne Treaty was signed last year (TIME, Aug. 6) there were many things left unsettled, and one of them was the Mosul question.* In the palace of the Turkish Admiralty on the Golden Horn, representatives of Britain, France and Turkey assembled to settle the thorny problem of Mosul. After much wrangling the conference broke up, a settlement having been impossible. Britain will take the matter before the League, but at present the Turks protest against such action...
...Mosul is the centre of important oil fields and oil is the leitmotif in the Allied concerto. Officially, however, Britain claims the right of protecting Mosul by virtue of a League of Nations mandate; Turkey claims it on ethnographical ground; France has a purely financial interest dating back to the Ottoman régime...
Leading planks in the Harvard Democratic platform are: Immediate entry in to the World Court, tariff for revenue only, reduction of armaments but maintenance of national defenses, maintenance of the capitulation's in Turkey, strict enforcement of the constitution. Increased aid for disabled veterans but not for healthy ones, and the abolition of tax-exempt-securities...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?R. Livingston Beeckman, onetime Governor of Rhode Island; L. Heilbroner, of Weber & Heilbroner (haberdashery) ; Gennaro Papi, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera; Oscar S. Straus, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Turkey...
...Lapland (Red Star) : Henry Morgenthau, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Turkey...