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...most of this year discussion of the keystone treaty has proceeded at a tepid pace with Secretary Hull frankly in the suitor's role, Great Britain favorable to an agreement but hesitant to disturb the network of preference agreements with her Dominions which followed the Ottawa Conference of 1932. These agreements were discussed by the British Government with Dominion representatives at the Imperial Conference after the Coronation, apparently without settling which part of the Empire should make the necessary concessions to the U. S. But during the past troubled month of European diplomacy the British Cabinet suddenly took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Treaty Trade | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...settle with an increase of $3,000,000. Since then the matter has been under consideration by the Mexican Board of Arbitration and Conciliation, which has also had to consider an unusually strong warning from U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels, who threatened that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Poza Rica | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

After History class came back and found the maid cleaning the room. As my roommate was out, I thought it a good time to ask her name. But as she kept her head bent over her work, I decided it would be a little foolish to disturb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

...mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: 30% Complete | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...governments in America," postulated the Argentine Foreign Minister. "Five countries of America, including our own. are about to elect new governments.*... It is NOT true that our Constitutions must be changed to adapt them to certain idealisms! . . . Monroe set up a retaining dam against any tendency ... to disturb the republican principles and existing political regimes in the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Nobelman's Doctrine | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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