Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London and in Washington immediate official reaction, while guarded, was definite that neither the United Kingdom nor the U. S. view with favor any conference upon Collective Security from which some of the world's most powerful states would be excluded...
...what veteran Paris correspondents saw as "a curious victory along strictly party lines," the Chamber quietly voted the new Cabinet confidence, 369-to-196. It was a curiosity that the Popular Front Premier kept offering in the lobbies to resign in favor of a National Union Cabinet, kept finding insufficient takers...
...possible choice, from the viewpoint of those French and British capitalists from whom France must try to keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was League Secretary General for 14 years, M. Paul-Boncour has been...
...ruthless royal dictator of great charm, who knew how to keep democratic Frenchmen and Britons cheering for him, was King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). Since his death, Yugoslavia has followed an exactly opposite foreign policy of courting the favor of authoritarian states -while not actually flouting France or Britain. Last week Premier Milan Stoyadinovich was so pleased with the way his country's foreign policy was shaping that he crowed in Parliament...
...unanimous consent required for official League action by the Geneva Covenant was only obtained on two measures: intellectual cooperation, and bilateral treaties for the protection of minorities. Majority decisions included recommendations in favor of the Palestine partition and aid for Spain and China...