Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While M. Benda's analysis of political passions is admirable and his main thesis is brilliant, many thoughtful readers will not find themselves in agreement with his main philosophical tenets nor will they be inclined to applaud some of his own political prejudices. M. Benda is still searching for eternal verities, abstract justice, and absolute good dissociated from its material embodiment. The modern philosopher who regards all values in a relative light is condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history...
...text of the secret naval agreement between Great Britain and France (TIME, Aug. 13) was partially exposed and its principles were vigorously denounced, last week, in a point blank note from the U. S. State Department to the British Foreign Office...
...answer to your proposal at Geneva was NO. Now your new secret agreement with France lines her up behind you in presenting to us once more this same proposal. Our answer is still...
...government of the United States has received from His Majesty's Government a communication summarizing the understanding reached between the British and French governments as to a basis of naval limitation. . . . Unfortunately the Franco-British agreement appears to fulfill none of the conditions which, to the American government, seem vital...
...concerned, the grip of that quinine monopoly has just been broken," declared Dr. Julius Klein of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce last week. There was exultation in his voice: "Up until recently the European quinine manufacturers, working under an ironclad agreement with the producers in the Indies, had things going very much their own way. The trust regulated precisely the amount of the drug that was to come upon the markets of the world. It allocated certain definite quantities to each of the consuming territories. Its dictates were imposed inflexibly. It controlled the disposition and price...