Word: cessions
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...Great Trek (as the Boers still call it), the hardier of the early Dutch settlers, disgruntled at the cession (1814) of the Cape Colony to the British and smarting under the alien rule, moved out with their families, their herds and their household possessions, betook themselves northward across the Orange and Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon...
Viewing the Roosevelt landslide as representing in part the cession of "proletariat" votes to combat an envisioned close race with the forces of "Fascism" latent in Landon support, the John Reed Society last night concluded a meeting in Phillips Brooks House to interpret the results of the election...
...fierce battles he repulsed Pakenham's superior force, saved New Orleans, and became overnight the national hero. When the Government wanted a man to invade Florida (a Spanish possession) without actually declaring war, Jackson was their first choice. Thinking this his last chore, he did it. When the cession of Florida was arranged, Jackson was made Governor of the new territory but gave up the post before the end of the year and went back with a sigh to his "Hermitage," to lead his declining years (he was 55) down the quiet path of a country gentleman. When...
...China should cede to Japan any rights in Manchuria, the United States, Russia or any other signatory would have a right under the Pact to disregard them, if in its opinion they were acquired by other than pacific means. If this means that a signatory may intervene when the cession is made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress of Berlin in 1878. It has been done twice with Japan, first when she was made to yield the Liaotung peninsula...
...Statesman Stimson, as it appeared circumstantially, played the Barco con cession against the $4,000,000 loan and thus secured a triumph of dollar diplomacy? No, was his indignant answer. The two matters, while parallel, were separate and distinct. The State Department insisted that its sole concern in these negotiations was "the fostering of friendly relations...