Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon steps to draft a concrete program of evacuation were taken by what was called the Political Commission of the Hague Conference. Beaming Dr. Stresemann sat to business between Mr. Henderson and M. Briand. "I believe a settlement of the political issue can be effected," he said, "even if agreement on the financial aspect of the conference is postponed...
...which Germans yearn with a passionate desire not fully realized in other countries-is swift, complete evacuation of the 60,000 Allied troops still occupying the Rhineland. Last week the short, soft fingers of the statesman from Berlin seemed to have virtually within their stubby grasp an Anglo-French agreement to evacuate the Rhineland at the latest...
Hard-headed Ramsay MacDonald insisted that both the workers' unions and the employers' associations bind themselves by signed agreement to accept the ruling of his Arbitral Board of Five. Two arbiters were chosen from each side. Umpire was a sterling Lancashire man, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. Finally the Prime Minister declared that in case of proven need the Government would grant a "temporary accommodation" (presumably a Treasury subsidy) to keep wages at the old level while the industry is getting on its feet...
...proposed new treaty was indiscreetly hinted before it was complete by Right Honorable Tom Shaw, bullfrog-voiced unstatesmanly Secretary for War in the new British Labor Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, as Prime Minister Mohammed sailed home to Egypt, the British Foreign Office released the text of the agreement which he carried, announced that it represents the "extreme limit" to which the Labor Government will go "to achieve a lasting and honorable settlement of the outstanding questions between Great Britain and Egypt...
Recently the leading Nationalist commanders were summoned to a "Disbandment Conference;" reached tentative agreement to cut the military establishment from 1,500,000 to 800,000 men. Last week however, Banker Soong charged that the militarists were making just as heavy demands on the Finance Ministry as ever. They would not consent, he declared, to abide by any fixed budget. He had offered to provide them with $6,500,000 per month, but they would not budget even on that generous basis. For a Soong and a banker there was only one alternative. In his long, closely reasoned letter...