| Show REVIEW VEW OF IP THE EVE INT S 0 F 19 2 chief happenings of the 40 past twelve months at home and in other lands DAWES PLAN IN EFFECT europe on the tha way to economic recovery british labor government overthrown republicans republican win great victory in american election flight of army planes around world by EDWARD W PICKARD many events of great moment barked the year 1021 first of these in importance undoubtedly cyns the formulation adoption and putting into operation of the dawes daives plan for the the payment of german reparations and indirectly the financial and economic regeneration of that country and europe generally the success of 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 not especially important internationally the outstanding ones were the civil war for the control of the government of china the attempt of spain to conquer the rebellious tribesmen of morocco the suppression of a rebellion in mexico and a ton long drawn out revolutionary lutio nary movement in brazil there were also several of the always to be expected internecine conflicts in central america on the whole mars had rather an idle year for 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 tbt time at least great britain experienced the novelty of being under a labor government which was fairly successful until it got tangled up with the russian soviets eov lets whereupon it was was ousted the conservatives winning the parliamentary elections by large majorities stanley Baldi baldwin Aln again became prime minister during the first quarter of the year the soviet government of russia won recognition from almost every important country except the united states but the soviet leaders continued to recede from their bol principles socialists captured the government of france and ferriot IIer riot became premier president mustapha kemal of turkey and dictator mussolini of italy were subjected to severe attacks from political opponents and were forced to more 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 domination of john W davis and charles W bryan and the independent candidacy of g lalor crib tor 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 thai the presidential office with charles gates dawes as vice president deriL during the long months of the campaign business in the united states had languished but immediately after the election it revived rapidly and at the same time there began a considerable boom in securities on the stock exchanges |
