Word: ishii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transmitted to M. Briand "new instructions." The shade of Alfred Nobel must have rejoiced as his three Peace prize winners signed a convention adjusting their differences on a hotel table. With them, to bind the bargain, signed Signer Scialoja of Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said: "He took the part of mediator between us. . . . Do not forget that Germany was the country with which Belgium...
...Viscount Ishii, thus called upon to take the floor, read rapidly the formula of compromise arrived at by secret negotiations among the Great Powers and drafted in its final form early last week by the Council commission created for that purpose (TIME, Sept. 6). Those present remarked that Viscount Ishii's purring syllables, impassive mien and gestureless delivery suggested a Buddhist deity bringing to Christians surcease from strife. As the last word was uttered, M. Benes darted a keen glance about the horseshoe-shaped Council table: "There are no objections? Then the resolution is adopted...
Other items on the agenda were: 1) Consideration of the report formulated by Dr. Unden (Sweden) and Viscount Ishii (Japan) on Security. 2) Examination of the proposal (TIME, June 7) by the Preparatory Disarmament Commission that more extensive powers be granted the Council under the League Covenant for bringing swift aid to an attacked state. 3) Inspection of the report of the Council Committee on the vexed question of whether other nations than Germany should be admitted to the Council at the September session. 4) Debate upon a proposal to curtail the supervision now exercised by the League over Hungarian...
...Since the gradations in rank among nations are gradual and often controversial, drawing a line between the great powers and minor becomes extremely difficult. Consequently the practice of awarding permanent seats in the council is a dangerous one. A remedy for this situation has been offered by Vis-count Ishii, President of the Assembly, who suggests that hereafter all conciliar places be elective...
...Lansing-Ishii agreement, said to have been drawn up by Viscount Ishii and President Wilson in 1917, was to affirm the principle of the Open Door in China. A paragraph, however, recognized Japan's "paramount interest"?a part which led the Japanese to suppose erroneously that the U. S. was intent upon abandoning her interest in the Far East...