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This wording is subject to any change the Oxford team may make. Germany's abandonment of her policy of passive resistance in the Ruhr has brough much nearer a settlement between her and France, thus removing much of the fire of the question for debate. It is therefore highly probable that there will be a change in the wording of the resolution...
...Please accept my heartiest congratulations on the settlement of the coal controversy. It was a difficult situation in which I invited your cooperation...
Although not directly connected with the Italo-Greek dispute, by virtue of assigning settlement to the Council of Ambassadors, the Council of the League of Nations held a "stormy" debate on Italy's defiant attitude to the League. In the final analysis nothing was said, the debate resolving itself into mere verbiage, breaking up in the small hours of the morning. The only tangible result was that Italy had defied the League Covenant and that the Council must report to the Assembly in order that it may take " some action calculated to reinforce the prestige of the League...
...despair, and Italy appointed General Giardimo, third in command of the Italian Army, Military Governor of the Free State. Signer Attilio Depoli, ex-head of the Fiumian Government, said, in his note to the Italian Government announcing his resignation, that " Fiume had hoped the Genoa Conference would arrange a settlement of the situation under which Flume's desire to be allowed to exist as an Italian city would be recognized." He continued that Fiumian aspirations had been thwarted by the Santa Margherita Convention and that the long delay in settling the status of Fiume and the consequent interference with political...
...arrested Count Hoying, President of the Austrian State (Monarchist) Party, charging him with attempting to kill Eckartsau, Executor of ex-Emperor Karl's estates. Count Hoying denied the charge, characterizing it as an attempt at political revenge. He admitted, however, that he had charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria in 1854. Empress Elizabeth was a great sportswoman; she was beautiful; moreover she had the brilliant intelligence of a Wittelsbach. From her arrival in Vienna she unwittingly offended...