Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic Centre Party, which holds a key position in the German Government coalition, draws its strength chiefly from voters in the Rhineland, and these were in a ferment of fear last week lest the "new" and "immoral" Young Plan conjured up by Dr. Schacht should give France the right to reoccupy the Rhineland in case Germany defaults on her Reparations payments...
Millions of U. S. citizens had ears at the opening of the London Naval Conference, but barely twoscore had eyes. Radio voices can leap the Atlantic, but not yet radio vision. Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime...
...Conference. Firm seemed the massive throne of George V last week, but it had toppled over and fallen ignominiously upon its side, while being carried over from the House of Lords proper to the Royal Gallery...
Signs and Omens. The general situation prior to the conference (TIME, Jan. 20), was modified last week in only one important category-Battleships...
...Duce's attitude is often said to be based on a profound cynicism, on the absolute conviction that the Powers will never unanimously agree to naval limitation. But as the conference sat down, last week, Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy said: "I foresee the closest cooperation between Italy and America. . . . I feel sure that our two countries will find themselves on the same side throughout the conference...