Word: imbroglio
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...impenetrable obscurity enveloping Shanghai has at last been pierced by a note from the State Department. To a bewildered world it is now disclosed that treaties have actually been violated in the Oriental imbroglio. The firm position of January 7 is reiterated with emphasis. America will under no circumstances recognize any treaty resulting from an act in violation of existing agreements, nor will she consider revision of their terms. Chauvinistic America will point out with pride this latest manifestation of superior diplomacy and will complain in unison with Mr. Stimson that Europe has deserted the cause of peace by refusing...
Japan the Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio. The Shanghai Council of the Nationalist Party passed a resolution of censure demanding his resignation, stigmatized him as "a rogue." His one chance lay in shrieking so vociferously about the "red menace" that the great powers would intervene...
...Mexican revolution and the proposed Nationalistic uprising in China must now give their place in the public eye to an impending dispute that is of more personal interest to the people of the United States. Although the imbroglio in which this country and Great Britain have become involved over the sinking of an alleged rum-runner does not arise from conflicting opinions of Nationalists or Revolutionists, it is a matter of internal government that threatens to become a question of international importance...
...Thus the imbroglio stood last week...
...similar U. S. products, it was mandatory for the U. S. Department of the Treasury-unless otherwise advised by the U. S. Department of State-to reply in kind, under a "countervailing" clause of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. But in light of the current tariff imbroglio of France and the U. S. (see p. 18), during which the U. S. Department of State had been at pains to explain that the U. S. tariff policy is not discriminatory, newsgatherers naturally went scurrying to the Department of the Treasury to see whether Assistant Secretary Lowman would accompany...