World News Briefs From the Era Include War Finance Aid and Patrician Politics
A broad snapshot of postwar events notes War Finance Corporation approving 3.147 million dollars for agricultural and livestock purposes across the nation. President Harding signs a tax revision into law as Congress adjourns its extraordinary session. Reports touch on naval discipline, Newberry Senate status, Thanksgiving with the Frelinghuysens, rejection of separate world financial talks, and various domestic and international developments including a renamed destroyer, calls to replace Gov Mont Recovery, and notable deaths. Also cited are labor and crime items, with Ruth seeking a 60,000 dollar salary and owners considering the bid.
Lord Beatty to lead British delegation at armament talks
The article notes Lord Beatty as first lord of the British admiralty and chief naval adviser to the delegation to Washington for the armament conference. It mentions his role in the Washington talks and identifies other related dispatches about international events and fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Riddell
Washington
Acquitania
Lloyd George
Evening Standard
London
Prince of Wales
Bombay
Lord Beatty
British Admiralty
Ashington, Wilt WY
Wells Et al
Arthur Balfour
Hughes
Briand
France
Clemenceau
Wilson
England
France's Need for Strength Amid German Threats in Conference
Analysis of armament talks shows discord over land armament limits and China. Briand warns France cannot reduce forces without U.S. and British backing. Britain and Japan push for limited naval reductions while safeguarding strategic interests. Open Door policy redefined as Root plan seeks no foreign intervention in China. Tax bill and anti beer measure conclude Congress session as Puerto Rico governor crisis brews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Hughes
Great Britain
United States
China
Admiralty
Congress
France
England
Washington
H. G. Wells
Remier
Briand
Germany
Russia
Ludendorff
Wirth
Europe
Elihu Root
Japan
Baron Kato
Manchuria
Oriental Republic
Outer
Mongolia
Tchitcherin
Diplomatic ties with Germany resume via ambassadorial moves
The United States and Germany reopen relations with ambassadorial calls in Paris and Baron Edmund von Thermann arriving in Washington as charge d'affaires to ready the embassy for a future ambassador. Berlin faces food price riots, a weak mark, and fears uprisings while seeking foreign credits to pay reparations and installments. In Belfast rioting leaves many dead and stores looted, with clashes tied to Orange and Sinn Fein factions as Irish delegates meet British cabinet members but yield unclear progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Germany
Paris
Washington
Edmund von Thermann
Berlin
Belfast
Orangemen
Sinn Fein
Ulster
Afl’ Eireann
Honn. MacNeill
Ireland
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War Finance Corporation
Harding
Capitol
Senate
Hmit
Col
E. H. Shaughnnessy
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Joseph Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Coblenz
Ford
John W. Ford
Dewey
Porto Rico
Mont Reily
Violet
Pensacola
Fila
C. Frederick Kohli
San Francisco
del Monte Lodge
del Monte
Cal
John W. Talbot
South Bend
Ind
The
Order of Owls
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Alaska
Andrew Fernseth
International Seamen’s Union
Claude Ross
Ralph
Marshfield
Ross
Frank D. Currier
Canaan, N. H
Charles Rosewater
Edward Rosewater
Omaha Bee
Omaha, Neb
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railway
St. Paul
Babe” Ruth
New York Yankees
Huston
Ruppert
Edwin Major
Parker Major
Erwin
Decatur
Ill
Windls Central
Cc. L. Hinkle
Chicago Great Western Railway
Minneapolis
Jose St. Mario
Union Pacific
Brighton
Cols
House of Governors
Charleston
8. C
Charles Hoffman
Wichita
Kan
Eddie Adams
Desperado
Adams
Salina
Pennsylvania Express
Chartottesville
Salinae
New York
St. Louis
Felix Philipp
Tokyo
Hirohito
Canada
Dominion
Western Front
Victory Tower
Ottawa
Countess de Wignacourt
Simon de Wignacourt
de Chabot
Place de L’alma
India
Beypore
William Francis Dogherty
Alfred le Blang
James Gordon Bennett
Tron and Steel
Dusseldorf
Marshal Foch
Adrienne Mayer
Uf Red Cross
Montana
South Dakota
Funchal
Madeira
Karl
Emont Reily
Poroto Rico
Senor Cordova-Davila
San Juan
Reily
Republican Party
Socialist Party
Antonio Barcelo
Gray
Sapolio
Rors
W. F. Young, Inc
Temple St
Springfield
Mass
Uingie Cosine Stearns
U. S
Aeace
Ives
Commercial Advancement CO. Dept. I
W. 20Th St
New York City
A. P. Richter
Wells
Chicago
Jones
Smith
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