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...Announcement of the Anglo-French accord to stand shoulder-to-shoulder against the U. S. on War Debt payments stirred the Senate to noisy apprehension. As an outgrowth of the Lausanne agreement on Reparations, troubled legislators viewed it as a European united front to force Revision, if not Cancellation. There were dark intimations that U. S. diplomats in Switzerland had been consulted, had even given informal assent to the debtors' doings. This the State Department sharply denied. Raw nerves were further soothed when, largely for domestic political consumption. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah as follows...
...Lausanne Conference which authorized the League to stage the World Conference. In London the Press was buzzing with the Lausanne agreement proper and its supplementary "gentleman's agreement" (TIME, July 18). Rising to address the House of Commons. Sir John announced the existence of a third agreement or Accord de Con fiance between the French Government and His Majesty...
...United States, Great Britain and Japan, by the Treaty of London. For the purposes of this proposal, it is suggested that the French and Italian strength in cruisers and destroyers be calculated as though they had joined in the Treaty of London on a basis approximating the so-called accord of March...
...nation as a whole. Happily the authorities at Amherst have comprehended fully the spirit in which the gift was made. The dedicatory speeches, which revealed a willingness to make the Library an open field for all students of Shakespeare, showed that Amherst's policy will be in accord with the best traditions of American scholarship...
...Electric Bond & Share or the Insull System must be regarded as an economic disease." He claimed that geographical "diversification," a prime selling-point for holding company securities, is not rational. He roundly criticized holding companies for borrowing (as many have done) from the companies they control. Heartily in accord with these sentiments was Harvard's famed Professor William Zebina Ripley. advocate of U. S. and State control of utilities...