Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment when Turkey is dropped from their Council. In Ankara last week reports were that General Inönü had backed up Dr. Aras and been cracked down upon for his pains. The British and French were quietly informed that the Turkish Government "interprets" the Nyon agreement as not affording any special Turkish facilities in the pirate patrol...
Hull. In his gentle old voice Secretary of State Cordell Hull reiterated his best-known belief, that the world's woes will remain until tariff barriers are reduced. He reinforced it with up-to-date facts: "In 1936 our export trade with 14 countries, with which trade agreements were in effect all or part of that year, increased by 18.2% over 1935, while our trade with non-agreement countries in creased 9.2%." Not on the platform but at a press conference Cordell Hull underscored his belief still further by a prediction that a general war or economic catastrophe...
...working agreement," he declared, "which will be effective so long as these two powers find it to their in- terest to maintain it." He doubted if it would be any real interest of Hitler to support the Mediterranean interests of Mussolini. "If the British could bring themselves to return some of the conquered colonies to Germany," Langer feels that the Rome-Berlin axis would "probably crack...
...civil war." Hasty adjournment of the Council squelched this concrete proposal. The other dominion bombshell was exploded not at Geneva but at Montreal by South African Delegate to the League of Nations Charles Theodore te Water. He declared that South Africa "would be willing to participate in a general agreement for the return to Germany of her former colonies, if it cost South Africa none of its security." This so alarmed London bigwigs that Reuters, the news agency closest to the Government, requested all newsorgans in the United Kingdom to withhold further publication of remarks by Mr. Charles te Water...
...destruction of Antigua by earthquake in 1773, which had lately been restored by United Fruit Co.'s famed agronomist Dr. Wilson ("Pop") Popenoe and his wife. Guest of Dr. Popenoe for two weeks, Author Adamic decided the house warranted a book. A further incentive arose from his enthusiastic agreement with United Fruit Co.'s Managing Director Samuel Zemurray, who had said of the natives: "They've got something, those people down there; they've got something." Author Adamic's enthusiasm runs to 300 pages (illustrated), comprising a rather labored history of Antigua for the last...