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Lausanne Treaty. The Senate failed by six votes to muster the two-thirds' majority necessary to ratify this treaty. The result: there is no peaceful relationship between the U. S. and Turkey except a temporary commercial modus vivendi...
...Senate has refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31), Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, busied himself at Angora last week and was reported to have signed an agreement with the Kemalist Government temporarily extending once more the commercial modus vivendi between Turkey and the U. S. which would otherwise have expired last week...
...means that Alsace and Lorraine will be allowed to keep their laws and to have representation at the Holy See.* Said the Premier to the Chamber of Deputies: "The regime of the Concordat will continue to be applied to Alsace-Lorraine until Parliament has definitely decided otherwise. The modus vivendi was easily found and we will apply it loyally and sincerely. Our attitude is based on the principle that the general regime of France cannot be applied brusquely to Alsace-Lorraine; while on the other hand, we cannot apply to entire France the religious status now in force...
...past seven days concerning a possible Conservative-Liberal coalition against Labor. For some time past, Winston Churchill has advocated a similar policy (TIME:, Oct. 6). with this difference, however: Churchill wants a complete fusion of the two old parties, whereas the Liberals seem only to wish for a modus vivendi coalition...
...situation of the Conservatives and the Liberals was obscure. Attempts at a modus vivendi agreement between the two parties were reported, but a substantially satisfactory arrangement was not made. The Conservatives with the largest number of seats in the House were inclined to stick by their protection policy, observing quite truthfully that the major part of the Imperial Conference work would be wasted if they failed to put protective tariffs into force. They also held that only by protection can unemployment be checked. The Liberals were diametrically opposed to this view from every angle. There was hope, nevertheless, that...