Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impression of fleeting moments, hours and years is not to be trusted. Suggested by Henry James's Sense of the Past, written by John L. Balderston, London correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back in it in the person of his great-great-grandfather. But while he has the visage of this distant sire, he retains his own 20th Century consciousness, which...
...smashing retort to those who thought he yielded too much ($9,520,000) to British Chancellor Snowden at The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9), M. Briand cried: "I came home with acceptance of the Young Plan in my pocket?with the means for final liquidation of the Wrar. . . . Would you rather I had yielded nothing . . . won nothing . . . and come home wrapped in dignity and nothing more...
...necessary to say squarely what one wants! If you believe that France is badly engaged, then disengage her. The Young Plan is bad? It violates the rights of France? Then tear it up, tear up The Hague Convention! . . . The International Bank [see p. 30] is bad? Suppress that too! . . . Keep French troops on the Rhine . . . Repulse the Government . . . and repulse...
Grandeur into Facts. With the Chamber molten, Prime Minister Tardieu leaped in to mold his fate. He was convincing and precise where M. Briand had been gaseously sublime. Yes, his Government stood for early evacuation of French troops from the Rhine, but not until Germany has ratified the Young Plan, which guarantees huge cash sums to France. The date set at The Hague for evacuation? he hammered in the date, June 30, 1930? was no longer binding, in his opinion, because the unforeseen death of Dr. Strese-mann has delayed German ratification of the Plan...
...realization of the economic interdependency of nations, a doctrine which has grown with enormous strides in the decade since the war, was consummated yesterday at Baden-Baden when final details as to the proposed World Bank were issued. If this institution, designed primarily to facilitate execution of the Young reparations plan, works out to its theoretical conclusion, it should stand among the greatest reforms of the twentieth century...