Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfinished money bill's provision against further buying of foreign silver last week caused near-panic in Mexico. In the U. S. all foreign bar silver available was rushed to the mints. The world price dropped to 38? per oz. (from 43? at the first of the week...
Three weeks ago the victorious Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old Hispanic custom of the right of asylum. Unhispanic indeed sounded the humane statement of the Chilean Foreign Office on the matter: the right of asylum is not a matter of politics, simply a humanitarian principle to avoid useless reprisals. Last week in Santiago, Chile let it be known that victory...
Senator Pittman's blackjack was potent. The harassed Senate compromised by voting back the 1937 silver price for domestic silver, barring further purchases of foreign silver (from China and Mexico). More surprising, it gave Senator Glass his victory, voted 47-to-31 to end the President's power to pare the dollar. But it gave new life to the stabilization fund, essential for U. S. participation in steadying foreign exchange with England and France...
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...President against an anticipated September Crisis abroad. Secretary of State Hull last week held conferences on the Tientsin situation but took no action, issued no statements (see p. 21). > Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera called to thank the President for U. S. courtesies upon the death of Mexico's air ace, Francisco Sarabia (TIME, June 19). The President seized the opportunity to ask Mexico to speed up its settlement of U. S. oil expropriation claims...