Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists like Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis. The President presumably reworked their drafts-adding appropriate passages from Lost Horizon-as his train sped east with few visitors aboard...
...light of the unfolding developments in the Far East the Government of the United States has been forced to the conclusion that the action of Japan in China is inconsistent with the principles which should govern the relationships between nations and is contrary to the provisions of the Nine-Power Treaty of Feb. 6, 1922, regarding principles and policies to be followed in matters concerning China, and to those of the Kellogs-Briand pact of Aug. 27, 1928. Thus the conclusions of this Government with respect to the foregoing are in general accord with those of the Assembly...
...Rightist shelling of the centre of the city. But there was no loafing on either side. New dugouts were going up, fitted with heat and electric light, drainage ditches were being dug on trench lines and supplies of food and clothing were being rushed into the city. To the east hundreds of workmen were driving spikes and laying rails for two new sections of track to bring Madrid into direct rail connection with Valencia again, for winter was coming on, and in the high altitude of the Spanish plateau there were not more than six or seven weeks of possible...
...just about as remote from Japan, geographically and in every other respect, as possible, and this fact in Geneva became important recently. The Dutch suddenly realized that their delegate was slated to be chairman of a League committee which must examine the aggressions of Japan, and, since The Netherlands East Indies are within easy striking distance of the Japanese Navy, the risk of heading such a committee was deemed too great for Queen Wilhelmina's representative, who promptly resigned. Thus, smart Vilhelms Munters of Latvia came to be chosen, has presided in recent weeks with notable skill and tact...
...ballots, with Poland and Siam abstaining, the motion directs League member States who are signatories to the Washington Nine Power Treaty (namely Belgium, China, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Japan and the U. S.) to invite the U. S. and "other interested powers" to a Far East Peace Conference-this invitation being promptly accepted last week by Washington. Dependent upon Belgium's permission, the Conference was scheduled to meet in Brussels...