Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine to Germany. Germany had no American colonies and "has given no occasion for the assumption that it intends to acquire such possessions. . . ." (So also had spoken the Holy Alliance in the 1820s.) The Nazi Foreign Minister complained that the Monroe Doctrine would seem to confer on some European countries the right to have American territories and deny that right to others. (A Nazi discovery made 117 years after it had been detected by the acute Prince Metternich. Actually, the Doctrine permitted powers that had American colonies in 1823 to keep them...
...Lisbon, to confer upon Portugal's Dictator-Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar the Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, flew a British mission, led by H. R. H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent...
March 18. Hitler and Mussolini confer at Brennero...
Urine for Ulcers. Women rarely have peptic ulcers. On a hunch that female hormones confer natural immunity, Dr. David Jacob Sandweiss, Physiologist M. H. F. Friedman and colleagues of Detroit's Wayne University made a purified extract of the urine of normal, healthy women, injected it under the skin of dogs in whom they had produced peptic ulcers. In several weeks the dogs recovered. Within the last two years the scientists have tried experimental urine injections on 60 patients, with "highly encouraging results." What the healing substance is, and where it is produced, the doctors haven...
...were considered in any plan to change the Balkan status quo. The Italian press proceeded to play Hitler's game by accusing the Allies of trying to shift the war to the Balkans and the French Ambassador André François-Poncet hurried, home to Paris to confer with his Government. Still the balance of power in Europe seemed to be held by Mussolini...