Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this spirit the Secretary of State took pen and signed the only document which was complete, a pledge under which the signatories promise to sign later, after appropriate investigation, such of five peace pacts sponsored by Argentina as they have not signed already (TIME, Dec. 25). It was the sole binding act performed by the U. S. Delegation at the Conference. Left unsigned by the U. S. was the Treaty on Equal Nationality Rights for Women...
Exercises lasting three hours were devoted to Peace, while savage jungle warfare raged less than 800 miles away in the Gran Chaco (see p. 16). Pointing out that five peace pacts of American application now exist, Argentina's courtly, old-school Foreign Secretary Carlos Saavedra Lamas urged that such of the 18 American nations present as had not signed all five should sign as many as they could as soon as they could. Rising to announce that the U. S. will sign Argentina's Pact, Secretary of State Hull praised "the Golden Rule, by which we mean...
...structure reared by International Bankers, however diabolical, simply cannot be tampered with by a general moratorium. How to give Dr. Puig's plan a graceful burial was the pressing problem. It was solved by that most arrogantly graceful of old school diplomats, Foreign Minister Dr. Saavedra Lamas of Argentina, who converses in such formal, rounded periods that he always appears to be reading an oration. Dr. Saavedra Lamas remembered that there still exists in Washington a moribund whatnot called the Inter-American High Commission, created by the First Pan-American Financial Conference in 1915. With vast relief the Seventh...
...Last week the President set up another potent governmental special bureau: the Executive Commercial Policy Committee. Purpose: to supervise negotiations of all commercial treaties, such as are now anticipated between the U. S. and Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Russia. Personnel: Walter J. Cummings (Treasury); Assistant Secretary Dickinson and Dr. Willard Thorp (Commerce); Assistant Secretary Tugwell (Agriculture); General William I. Westervelt (AAA); Oscar B. Ryder (NRA); Commissioners O'Brien and Page (Tariff Commission). Chairman pro tempore is Undersecretary of State Philipps...
...Argentina has neither notified this government of its action nor asked for its advice. The whole affair seems to be a matter between the individual creditors and the Argentine Government...