Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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China has no government properly speaking but is the spoil of military adventurers who march and countermarch up and down tha land in a conglomerate civil war. Noteworthy, this state of affairs makes it impossible for the Powers to abandon the safeguarding of their citizens in China by the principle of extraterritoriality under which foreigners are tried before courts of their own nationals set up in China...
Like a stern grey cat clawing feathers one by one from a gaudy canary Dictator Stalin of Russia has spent eleven months mercilessly divesting of his powers the once great Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," "bomb-boy of Bolshevism," arch-director of plots in every land to subvert world capitalism...
...They thought that the Secretary of State had threatened to do something (perhaps withdraw recognition from the Calles Government, perhaps lift the embargo which prevents arms being shipped into Mexico over the U. S. border) if the Calles Administration does not come to heel in the matter of its land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25) which the Coolidge Administration deems retroactive and confiscatory. As a matter of fact Secretary Kellogg had spoken as if the Administration might do something, but everyone knew that Congress was in no mood to fight or intervene in Mexico at present...
...Notes. Secretary Frank B. Kellogg and Foreign Minister Aaron Saenz have now corresponded for a year about the Mexican oil and land laws which were promulgated last December and January, respectively, and become operative next January...
Desperate Alternative. In Mexico, U. S. land and oil owners were in a desperate quandary. The new laws require them to "apply for confirmation" of their oil titles before Jan. 1, 1927, and accept "concessions" to operate their properties for not more than 50 years from the time they first began to do so. This form of "title con firmation" perfectly illustrates what was meant by the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee when he said: "Mexico is seeking... to change the nature of property. . .in Mexico. . . ." If the oil titles are not thus "confirmed...