Word: xvi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remnants of the League, Anthony Eden and Stanley Baldwin met on Gloomy Sunday with a group of Foreign Office experts. It was almost certain that smaller nations would refuse to go on with Sanctions against Italy. Yet if the League Covenant were revamped to do away with Article XVI, which authorized the use of force in applying Sanctions, then the League could continue as an amiable debating society, publishing valuable works on the extent of white slavery, the opium traffic, and the migration of whales...
...appellation ''late, great" to Louis XVI of France, TIME, Feb. 24? History credits him with being lazy, dull, bumbling, and weak-kneed, lacking in intelligence and will power, more interested in his hobby of locksmithing than reigning France. About all he had was good intentions...
...well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France's late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade said to have cut off the head of His late Majesty. Up went bids from 2,000 francs ($135) until everyone dropped out but the plumpish unknown and that well-known collector of French Revolution mementoes, M. Charles Lievre. In a final spurt to 12,500 francs ($835), the blade went to M. Lievre, along with documents certifying that until 1893 it had remained in the executioner...
...guise of this same internationalism. But you of the right, composed of L'Action Française the clerics, the Royalists & the pretentious. Should the country be turned over to your clique? You dare to criticize the past 60 years government. What about yours during Louis XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII & Charles X? ... You say your enemies are Communists. Bad as it is, you are as bad! And you show your rottenness by attacking Free Masons; for those of France indeed are different from those of England & the U. S. . . . As to the dark pages-you refer to the Revolution...
...execution of Paragraph 3 of Article XVI of the League Covenant," dryly observed Pierre Laval, "I have not hesitated to pledge France's aid to Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more...