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...John could not be trusted not to exceed their authority and that he was therefore obliged to expose their real position. Next day they hotly retorted from Stresa that British foreign policy is not the business of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This scandal unmasked the long-suspected Cabinet split which has made the Empire's foreign policy for months a policy of drift, got Stresa down to tacks so brassy that the Conference was said to have been wrecked at the start...
Worse still, in Paris the Cabinet was split. Supple Foreign Minister Pierre Laval who is a disciple of Peace Apostle Aristide Briand, held that negotiation with Germany can still bring peace. Kinetic Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin insisted that Germany must be ringed around with "an alliance cordon of steel...
Harvard's Varsity and Jayvee rugby teams split with Princeton in a double-header at Princeton on Saturday with the honors of a 11-5 victory over the undefeated Tiger going to the credit of the Crimson Varsity...
...Atlanta's richest families. Asa Candler sold out for $25,000,000 in 1919 to a group of Georgia capitalists headed by Ernest Woodruff, who with his son, President Robert W. Woodruff, now controls the company.* Since 1919 Coca-Cola has earned more than $120,000,000, split its common stock two-for-one. Last week it had the distinction of being the highest priced active stock on the New York Stock Exchange...
...life Venizelos had worked to consolidate Greeks in Greece. The desperate adventure this month of his last revolution between the peninsula on the one hand, the islands and Macedonia on the other, marked the first time he had ever fought to split Greeks. And for the first time he failed. Once more ''the shivering of the dying and the malediction of man'' fell upon Venizelos. The 71-year-old man, who fled last week to a swank Italian hotel in Rhodes with a private beach, groaned, "I am tired by the hardships and disappointments...