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Diplomacy: "The dispatches of these times [Bismarck's] are full of secret signals and ciphers, the clue to which has been lost in subsequent times, and not a few of them missed fire even in their own time because their meaning was so elaborately concealed that nobody could discover...
"When the present wages in that industry were agreed to, some 66% of all bituminous coal was produced by Union miners and 33% by the non-Union fields. Today I am informed about 70% of all bituminous coal is produced in the non-Union fields and only about 30% in...
At the request of the Treasury, Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain despatched notes to all debtor countries* urging that the time was ripe for settlement of their obligations. The notes stated that settlements need be only provisional, but stressed the principle that the debts must be paid equally and at the...
Who shall define a triumph? The first night of Italian opera in London, Mme. Toti dal Monte swelled her ample bosom to emit the titular notes of Lucia di Lammermoor. Diffident boxes whacked their hands red. "A triumph," said the press next morning, meaning that Toti dal Monte had covered...
After months of negotiations, a Franco-Russian commission which was convened in Paris to find a way of reading some meaning into Russian recognition by France, ended its words, vacated its chairs, dispersed.