Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main fleet the capital ship is the essential element upon which the whole structure of our naval strategy depends. The age of our battleships renders it necessary to commence their replacement at an early date, but the extent of new construction would be subject to any agreement reached at the forthcoming naval conference...
...exercise my right under the Succession Act to nominate my successor. I have no wish that any one should create any disturbance in the country on my behalf; if any one should use my name in this connection it must be understood that it would be without my agreement, approval or support My deepest regret is that I no longer will be able to serve my people and my country. . . . I can but pray that Siam may have prosperity and that the Siamese people may have happiness...
...sort of vital symbol last week of the Great Powers' will to prevent Austria from being absorbed into Nazidom. This will was formally recorded at Rome in the pact of Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval (TIME, Jan. 14), then re-recorded at London in the Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France), had really nothing to do except to pin upon sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun...
...Abyssinia's Great Editor last week that His Majesty turned out an able, world-copyrighted declaration to United Press. The adroit lead sentence: "I am anxious to carry out the recent Geneva agreement as quickly as possible...
Europe had forgotten and will quickly forget again that there ever was an Italo-Abyssinian agreement, sponsored at Geneva this winter by the League Council. "My interpretation of the agreement is," continued Abyssinia's Great Editor, "that Abyssinia and Italy recommence direct negotiations forthwith, with the sole purpose of arranging prompt arbitration of various matters in dispute. These include...