Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London and closeted himself with Whitehall officials (TIME, April 5). Three days later the curly-haired Leopold took the boat train for Brussels, carrying with him assurances that Great Britain, and France as well, would release Belgium from the Locarno Treaty obligations of 1925 and the Anglo-Franco-Belgian agreement of March 19, 1936 by which Belgium promised to help defend Britain and France against attack. Chief feather in the Diplomat-King's cap was agreement of the British and French Governments to maintain their end of the pact, namely, to aid Belgium if attacked...
...phrase "military action directed against Germany" refers to Belgium's obligations under the League Covenant to support military sanctions against a state declared an aggressor. European observers opined that delay in concluding the new agreement has been caused by Berlin efforts to edge Belgium away from the League. These failed because, as a price for the Anglo-French release, Belgium had promised to stick by her League commitments...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, also spoke, and said that he expected the present "three-presidents agreement" will go down as a contribution to intercollegiate athletics. "The tramp athlete has gone," he said. "He doesn't exist in these three institutions. I am sure that the three colleges are playing the game according to the rules. But the starting date for practice should be changed. It should vary with the date the season ends." He expressed the belief that some adjustment would be made shortly...
...third point, the payment of dues to the National organization, was settled with the agreement that as in the past the Harvard chapter should forward $.50 for each regularly enrolled member...
...give Japan. Germany and Italy an impression that Britain will not be to blame for whatever ultimate difficulty the new Washington policy may cause them. The Prime Minister went out of his way to add: "We were sincerely rejoiced that it was found possible to come to an agreement with the Italian Government as to the patrolling of the Mediterranean by French, Italian and British warships [TIME, Oct. 4]. If we could once make real progress in the settlement of the Spanish problem, the way would be open to those conversations which formed the subject of the recent correspondence between...