Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Lords was informed by Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that, after Lord Runciman was told what is expected of him, he exclaimed: "I quite understand. You are setting me adrift in a small boat in mid-Atlantic...
Prague Tricked? Adrift in the small boat with Lord Runciman will be a delegation of top-rank British Foreign Office experts and officials serving as advisers to this one-man power. Much as other states make unofficial war, Britain had launched an unofficial drive for peace...
...quarters of a century and between 1910 and 1926 the nation went through 18 revolutions, some 40 changes of government. Finally in 1926 the army took control, later set up a dictatorship. Prime force behind the present rule is Dr. Salazar, who is now Minister of Finance, War and Foreign Affairs as well as Premier...
...total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum products, foodstuffs, wood-pulp and copper-to mention only a few items-are produced for the foreign market. . . ." Author of this exposition is ruddy President Warren Lee Pierson of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, official guardian and nursemaid of this enormous trade. Last week his bank made one loan, was at work on another, which heralded a new spurt in efforts to help...
Assistance for U. S. exports was made necessary by three great post-War changes -the building of huge tariff walls, the U. S. shift from a debtor to a creditor nation and the establishment by competing nations of export credit agencies. With almost every foreign nation in debt to the U. S., none had money to buy U. S. products; and the U. S. banking system, developed for a debtor nation, had no machinery for providing foreign buyers with long-term credits. The first Export-Import Bank was created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 to fill the need for Russia...