Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the council invite members to state what action they would be prepared to take in the event of a conflict breaking out in a given region...
...Janeiro. He soon won promotion and he was transferred to the embassy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1912 he was made counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration...
...Soviet exports amounted to only 20,000,000 rubles. Persia then boycotted Russian goods, threatened to build a railway from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, in order to "make them independent of the Russian market." Both sides suffered in the economic conflict and AH Ghuli Khan, one-time Ambassador at Moscow, was sent early in the year to negotiate the above treaty...
Last week in London Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of the Royal Dutch-Shell group of oil companies, gave evidence of a world-spread conflict for oil sources and oil markets...
...position analagous to that of Will H. Hays in the cinema industry) unchallenged as baseball's dictator. Ever after Commissioner Landis' appointment (in 1920, following bribery in the World's Series of 1919) there was rivalry, warfare between the new baseball head and the old. The conflict had apparently come to an end as far back as January, 1927, when after an undisguised Landis-Johnson falling out, President Johnson's indefinite vacation was announced-his health, which was undoubtedly bad, being given as the reason (TIME, Jan. 31). With the opening of the present baseball season...