Journal de Genève
The Imperial Conference
The Journal de Genève of 20 October 1926 led with a column signed W.
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The State and the Church in Italy
The Journal de Genève front page of 19 October 1926 opened with a dispatch from its Rome correspondent reporting that the Roman question — the unresolved quarrel between the Italian state and the papacy — was again being fought over in Fascist and Catholic newspapers, and that Fascism's favours to religion and the clergy and its campaign against Freemasonry had made a reconciliation look concrete.
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The Health of Peoples
The Journal de Genève's front page of 17 October 1926 carried three opinion pieces.
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A Socialist Undertaking
The Journal de Genève's front page of 16 October 1926 set a Swiss domestic polemic beside two pieces of foreign correspondence.
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The International Labour Office Session
The Journal de Genève's front page of 15 October 1926 covered international labour, Swiss public finance and the French mandate in Syria.
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National Pacification in Czechoslovakia
The front page of 14 October 1926 carried a column signed "W.
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The Return of Mgr Seipel
The front page of 13 October 1926 led with a Vienna correspondent's report that Austria's Ramek–Rintelen cabinet was about to make way for a new government.
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Universal Suffrage and Dictatorship
The page opened with Guglielmo Ferrero’s signed column arguing that universal suffrage, once dreaded by the Church and by conservatives, had become the great conservative force of the modern world.
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Seeckt and Severing
The front page of the Journal de Genève for 10 October 1926 carried an editorial signed W.
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The Power of the Civil Servant
This front page of 9 October 1926 set Swiss domestic politics beside League-era diplomacy.
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Polish Affairs
The Journal de Genève's front page of 8 October 1926 carried an editorial signed W.
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The Pan-European Congress
The Journal de Genève's front page of 7 October 1926 led with a signed editorial on the Pan-European Congress in Vienna.
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How the English Strike Is Ending
The Journal de Genève's front page of 6 October 1926 led with H.
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The steel cartel
The Journal de Genève of 5 October 1926 led with an editorial signed W.
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An Apostle
This front page of the Journal de Genève opened with Raoul Patry's tribute to Tommy Fallot, the Protestant pastor whose call for the Churches to take up their social duty had once been branded subversive; prompted by Pastor Marc Boegner's biography, Patry held him up as a prophet whose cause had since been won in principle.
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The Livorno Meeting
This front page of 2 October 1926 carried three substantial pieces.
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Abdication?
This Geneva front page of 1 October 1926 led with an editorial signed J.
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Responsibilities
The Journal de Genève of 30 September 1926 combined a front-page editorial, a statistics column and a report from Rome.
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The Greek Problem
The Journal de Genève of 29 September 1926 considers how political and international cooperation might recover after upheaval.
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The Mayors’ Protest in France
The Journal de Genève of 28 September 1926 defended Poincaré’s resolve against mayors protesting administrative and judicial closures, presenting their demands as a threat to reform.
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The Financier in Civic Life
The Journal de Genève of 27 September 1926 examined the authority of money, courts and imported law.
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The seventh Assembly
The lead editorial welcomes Germany's admission to the League of Nations while weighing the breakup of the Latin American voting bloc.
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Franco-German rapprochement
The reviewed opening distinguishes the League’s universal arena from bilateral Franco-German relations.
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Autumn session. The status of civil servants.
The saved headings identify an autumn parliamentary session focused on civil-service status, a League of Nations commission, and correspondence from Rome on police reorganization.
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Disarmament
The preserved opening of “Disarmament” argues that progress is occurring without being noticed.
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The mandates
The editorial opens by praising the Mandates Commission, then gives a more ambivalent account of the system’s origins.
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The Thoiry talks: reports of a far-reaching scheme
The opening of the Thoiry article distinguishes the statesmen’s silence on specifics from journalists’ accounts of the talks.
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Is the Assembly over?
The paper argues that the League Assembly still has substantial work despite statesmen leaving Geneva.
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General Averescu in Rome
The paper credits earlier Romanian negotiations while admitting the new agreement’s clauses are unknown.
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Against the wheat monopoly
The paper openly campaigns against a grain monopoly, questions the continuity of the enlarged League Council, and explores how Italy’s treatment of political emigrants affects countries receiving them.
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The continents
Three arguments about the League dominate: whether international cooperation should be divided by continents, how to resolve the price of a Geneva property, and how German nationalists react to the government’s policy.
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The dignity of the Assembly
The front page links international and domestic democracy.
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Elections to the Council
The page questions a larger League Council while discussing the local land and legal arrangements needed for the institution’s growth in Geneva.
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Swiss experiences
The editorial compares the League of Nations with Switzerland’s experience of joining sovereign political communities.
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