Word: conferences
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...conquered nations for itself. Its position would be that the fate of such possessions should be decided "by and among all the republics of this hemisphere." If a Monroe Doctrine operated in Asia, it would mean that in deciding the fate of Indo-China, all the Asiatic countries would confer. Said Steve Early, summing up the President's view: "The same procedure follows also with respect to Europe and to other parts of the world-that all European and Asiatic countries confer and make these decisions-not just one conquering power. Do you get the point...
...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...