Show REVIEW OF THE EVENTS OF 1924 chief happenings of the past twelve months at home andin other lands DAWES PLAN IN EFFECT ru europe rope on the way to economic recovery british labor government overthrown Republicans Republic aris win great victory in american election flight of army planes around world I 1 by EDWARD W PICKARD 15 many events of grent great moment the year ear 1024 1924 first of these in importance undoubtedly was tile the formulation adoption and putting into operation of tho the dawes plan for the payment of ger german man reparations anti and indirectly the financial and economic regeneration of that country and fu eu rope generally the success of tills this scheme means much for the entire civilized world having been devised mainly by americans it adds to the prestige of america wars were few and riot not especially important internationally tile the out ones were the civil war for tho the control of th alie government of china the attempt of spain to 0 conquer the rebellious tribesmen of alo morocco the suppression of n rebellion in mexico and a long drawn out rove rew 4 lutlo lutio nary movement in brazil there were also several of tile the always to be expected internecine conflicts in central america on the whole mars had rather an idle year r for or a time the alarmists alarmiste alar mists talked of war between the united states and japan over the japanese exclusion clause in the new american immigration law but the crisis was passed safely for the time at least great britain experienced the novelty elt of being b elep under a labor government which was fairly successful until it got tangled up with the russian soviets eov lets whereupon it was ousted the conservatives winning the parliamentary elections by large majorities stanley baldwin again became prime minister during the first quarter of the year the soviet government of russia won recognition i n from almost every important coun country try except the united states but the soviet lenders leaders continued to recede from their bol bel cevik hevik principles socialists captured the government of france and herriot became premier president kemal of turkey and dictator mussolini of italy were subjected to severe attacks from political opponents and were forced to more e liberal attitudes in the united states the biggest event of the year was the national election together with the sensational democratic convention which resulted in the nomination of john W davis I 1 and charles charlea W bryan and the independent candidacy of 0 Seti bior lafollette and senator wheeler on a radical platform despite the oil reserve scandal that had laid the republican administration open to attack the voters of the land by a plurality of about decided that calvin coolidge should continue in ill tho the presidential office with charles gates dawes as vice president during the long months of the campaign business in the united states had languished but immediately after the election it ft revived rapidly and at the same time there began a considerable boom in t on the stock exchanges I 1 |