Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that it would be in the public interest to deal with this important question outside party atmosphere and by agreement so that a decision of one Government might not be upset by another...
Mayor Quinn's proposal of a "gentleman's agreement" between Cambridge and the colleges within its gates brings up a subject that has become increasingly vital with the continued growth of the city and its universities in the past few years. From the purely legal aspects of the matter the proposal may appear to be entirely in favor of Cambridge, since the colleges make a definite pledge regarding operations with their property, while the city can make only an unofficial agreement to cooperate with the universities' plans for closing and widening streets. But according to Mayor Quinn that...
British Monroe Doctrine. Advocates of treaty reservations point out that sev eral of the signatories have already sharply defined their individual attitudes regarding the agreement's scope and meaning. Great Britain, for example, has issued (TIME, July 30) a very sweeping statement that her right to self-defense includes the right to take whatever measures ap pear necessary in whatever portion of the world British safety may be threatened. Senator Borah said that the Chamberlain note meant nothing at all, inasmuch as it guaranteed to Great Britain nothing that was not already implicit in the treaty...
...fact that there was no final determination of Germany's reparation liabilities, has left an element of uncertainty in the plan itself, and in the affairs of all countries concerned in reparations. It has become increasingly clear that a final settlement of the problem to be achieved by mutual agreement would be in the best interests of the creditor powers and Germany alike. The new experts committee is to draw up proposals for a complete and final settlement of the Reparations problem and is thus expressly empowered by the governments concerned to consider the fundamental problem still remaining...
...proposed Concordat was made by Il Duce or Il Re. The favorable disposition of His Majesty is well known; but less than a year has passed since Editor Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of Benito, roundly declared in II Popolo d'ltolia that no possibility of a Church-State agreement then existed (TIME, April 9). However the Papal spokesman said, last week, that the rapprochement to which he referred had been negotiated "since September last...