Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plan. "Winnie" proposed that: 1) a three-cornered conference should be held between the miners, the owners, and the Government at which the broad principles of miner-owner relationships should be fixed and agreed upon by all. 2) Subsequently regional agreements should be made in each mining district, taking local conditions into account but harmonizing with the broad principles of the national agreement...
Relenting the Secretary gave out a close-lipped interview: "There is nothing I can say about the debt accord; that passed out of our hands and went before Congress when Ambassador Berenger and I signed it. Of course, I advocate its ratification. It would be a poor agreement indeed if the man who wrote it did not support it. "Nobody expects the United States to try to ruin financially any nation which is trying to discharge her obligations...
...presided as arbiter. Said he afterwards: "I am ashamed that the Christian Filipinos showed Mr. Thompson that they were unable to live amicably with the Moros. I regret to sav that discipline was maintained by the Mahometan Moros, but not by the Christian Filipinos. The Filipinos broke an agreement which they made in my presence two days ago. Knowing the danger of a conflict between the Moros and Filipinos, I arranged that both groups should share equally in the welcome to Mr. Thompson. Instead of keeping the agreement, the Filipino Governor sought to participate in trouble. . . . There might have been...
Germany was kept out of the League (TIME, March 29) at a League session called especially for her admission, simply because the nations holding nonpermanent seats on the League Council were not unanimously in agreement that Germany should be admitted to a permanent seat. Brazil, the popular villain of this obstruction, gave notice of her resignation from the League-effective two years hence (TIME, June 21). Spain, equally bent on obtaining a permanent seat, launched a campaign of pressure against the League Powers which culminated last week in the reopening of the Tangier question. (See INTERNATIONAL...
...Abyssinia against Britain and Italy can be imagined, the possibility that the League can or will adjudicate the rights of Abyssinia seemed dwindling to a remote infinitesimal. Subsequently both the British and Italian Governments made sheep's eyes, despatched letters to the League Secretariat declaring that their mutual agreement "cannot," according to the British letter, "detract from the rights of the Abyssinian Government which may take such decision as it may think fit or limit the possible action of third parties...