Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claims an interest." The resentment of the World Court Adherent Powers at this blanket reservation was pungently expressed last week by the Canadian representative Sir George Eulas Foster, onetime (1888) Canadian Minister of Finance: "The reservation, whereby the U. S. demands 'the right of consent,' is virtually a command to the Court-'Thou shalt not do thus and so. . . .' This demand is mandatory and dictatorial. . . . If it is accepted the World Court must ask the U. S. Senate whether it 'has or claims an interest' in every question brought before the Court. Suppose...
...That the United States may at any time withdraw its adherence to the Court protocol, and that the statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice adjoined to the protocol shall not be amended without the consent of the United States...
...adhering to the World Court of any obligation under the Treaty of Versailles or in connection with the League of Nations; and the stipulation that the World Court shall not render an opinion on a matter of interest to the U. S. except by consent...
...returned to Paris, from London last week a fiscal conqueror. The Franco -British debt settlement (TIME, July 19), which he had negotiated with Chancellor Churchill was supplemented by attached correspondence providing that should France ever fail* to receive less than 50% of the contemplated German reparations payments, Britain will consent to a renegotiation of the entire Franco-British debt...
Some 50 Radcliffe, Wellesley and Simmons college ladies have obtained their parents' reluctant consent to spend the summer "seeing how the other half lives." They will work in shops and factories, "go incognito and spend their leisure time as well as working hours exactly as the working girls...