Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opens, most auspiciously, the political New Year 1928. Not since the World War has a twelvemonth commenced with all nations so substantially at peace, with all major governments so markedly stable. While this unusual global calm prevails, it becomes possible and prudent to scan certain key nations and their great men, asking and answering a crisp, significant question: "Who rules the World...
...Chamber and Senate overwhelmingly ratified, last week, a bill calling for the expenditure in 1928 of 150,000,000 francs ($7,500,000) on the building of 15 new war boats totaling 37,500 tons. Boats: one 10,000 ton cruiser; six superspeed 2.500 ton destroyers; five submarines. (See COMMONWEALTH and GERMANY...
...suave, plump, oval-faced statesman, eyes keen, beard a scrubby Vandyke, was hailed as the real creator of the new gold lira. He is Count Guiseppe Volpi di Misurata. Citizens of the U. S. remember the business-like fashion in which he negotiated the funding of Italy's War debt to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925). Last week he revealed the vast credits which he has built up abroad to enable Italy to defend her new currency against fluctuation on international exchange. Said he: "The Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international bankers?just...
...career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). Later his successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli won him his title: "Count di Misurata." Finally he was among the first of rich Italians to embrace Facismo whole heartedly...
Accordingly, all who would read China's future turned, last week, to gaze upon certain promising war-seeds and their lavish sowers...