Word: estonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again France was the largest defaulter, $22.200.927, the others being Poland ($5,408.292), Belgium ($2,859,454) and Estonia ($435,408). King Albert's little Belgium again sent the tartest note to the U. S. State Department, snapped that she signed her debt agreement only after verbal assurances in Washington that her payments to the U. S. would be "amply covered by German reparations payments" shut off by the Hoover Moratorium...
...Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich and pious, is a thoroughgoing Soviet-ophobe. Mexico extended recognition only to withdraw it with loud complaints of Communist propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway. Persia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the U. S. and Uruguay...
Last week Director MacMurray was preparing to set out as U. S. Minister to Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, with perhaps Soviet Russia as a later objective (TIME, Oct. 30). During his absence the Page School will be directed by Dr. Frederick Sherwood Dunn, associate in the School, onetime assistant solicitor in the State Department, member of mixed claims commissions, fellow in international law at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Dunn has completed a study on "Protection of Nationals." is working on "Intervention in International Affairs." Other Page School projects: a round table on China; studies on oil in Russia by Dr. Lazare Teper...
...quieting effect upon U. S.-domestic excitements was instant and undisputed. For William Bullitt, now special assistant to the Secretary of State, it was also a triumph: weeks of quiet negotiation by him and by John Van Antwerp MacMurray, who is apparently slated to turn in his Latvia-Estonia-Lithuania portfolio and become Ambassador to Moscow, led up to last weeks exchange of letters...
...delegates, frail, pallid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Robert W. Bingham and smart, sharp-nosed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, newly appointed Minister to Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania, promptly tried to save the Wheat Pact by proposing to offer Russia a quota 8,000,000 bu. greater than her hypothetical allotment...