Word: importancies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharpening of this division, indicated by these two present events, is fraught with great import to the peace of the Pacific. The deepening of the gulf between east and west seems inevitably to lead to a gigantic conflict of racially hostile nations, its gradual effacement to peaceful tolerance. And only by voluntary limitation of imperialistic ambitions can the nations of the Pacific find that road to peace...
...administrations can point to so much of primary importance, accomplished in so short a time. And of perhaps even greater import, intelligent people can no longer be made to blanch and tremble at the clamors of know-nothings and malicious politicians, that a Laborite regime means hopeless internal disorder, with the abnegation of property rights, and destruction of the family and religion...
...English Labor Party was the first of the neo-liberal groups to gain control in the victorious countries of western Europe, and the fate of this government at the bands of the newly reassembled Parliament and at the ballots of the voters in the inevitable election is of special import to the chances of Herriot and also, indirectly, to the prospects of Senator Robert M. La Follete...
...German Charge d'Affaires in Paris called at the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office), delivered a protest against the French imposition of a 26% import tax on German goods...
...French contention was that Britain has imposed, for some years, a 26% import tax on German goods without complicating trade relations. France was determined, said M. Laroche, political director of the Quai d'Orsay, to put the new tax into effect. He pointed out that the Experts' Plan would not be interfered with. On the contrary, it would be helped. The tax would, said he, partially solve the transfer of reparation payments, because France would collect the tax from the French importer and apply the amount on the account of reparations due from Germany; while the importer would...