Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grew petulant when Sir Austen Chamberlain refused to bind himself to a definite policy respecting League Council seats on the eve of his departure for Geneva (see THE LEAGUE...
...both men and to the world at large. It provides that all legal disputes which may arise between Austria and Czechoslovakia are to be submitted to an impartial commission chairmaned by an appointee of the Swiss Government. Should this commission fail to resolve the difficulty, then the signatories bind themselves to carry their dispute before the international judicial machinery at The Hague...
...nation", continued the speaker, who has attained a high degree of prominence in Europe as a student of the modern drama particularly, "but rather a group of 65 million people striving for individualism. To bind this mass the German government acts as a huge vise. This lack of community spirit is due largely to the 27 political parties which flourish in Germany today and to the large number of religious creeds. The dominant note is so largely that of individualism that there are no social sciences taught in the schools and universities. The watchword of the German social life today...
...Extremely well authenticated reports from Paris indicated that the Russian Commission was empowered to negotiate the granting of Russian oil concessions to French capitalists, in return for which the loans just mentioned would be advanced to Russia. Fiscal experts opined that unless the Soviets are willing to bind their bargain by well protected concessions of this nature, no bargain will be struck...
...week King Ferdinand of Roumania read to the Crown Council a letter in the autograph of Crown Prince Carol which had been postmarked at Venice: "I have irrevocably decided to renounce all my rights as heir to the Roumanian throne and as a member of the royal family. I bind myself during six years not to return to Roumania, and also after the lapse of this period never to tread Roumanian soil again except with the permission of the King and the Roumanian Parliament...