Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system, without taking a Bastille, without decapitating a king, without bloody tribunals, has not the moment arrived to try what demonstrates itself to be utilizable, without having to march on Rome, and without the ten years of suffering...
...Sole work done by the Disarmament Conference last week was to "approve the principle of reducing armaments to the lowest limit consistent with national safety" and to adopt an Anglo-American resolution calling for an attempt by the Conference to attain "qualitative disarmament" and decide what weapons are "most efficacious against national defense" (with a view to limiting such weapons...
Studiously avoiding "radicalism," the International Labor Organisation works under a provision of the Treaty of Versailles (Part XIII). Each participating nation sends four delegates, two representing its Government and the other two Labor and Capital. Recommendations passed by the Conference are of course nonbinding, but it may also adopt draft conventions and these the 55 member nations are bound to submit to their parliaments for adherence or rejection. None of the 31 draft conventions adopted by sessions of the Conference thus far has been ratified unanimously, but 30 of these 31 conventions have been adopted by one or more nations...
...Rome, finally, it was Signer Benito Mussolini who caused his Fascist Grand Council to adopt last week a pungent manifesto exhorting the Great Powers to "renounce Reparations and cancel War Debts...
...Every country bordering upon us or near us has had to adopt stringent measures against the exportation of capital, but not Lithuania. The litas continues to be worth ten American cents, as it always...