Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of that concern. Two factions are bidding $3,000,000 for the stock, and the one that obtains it will control. One faction is headed by Thomas H. Tracy, and the other by Henry L. Thompson, Chairman of the Board of Directors. President John N. Willys, until recently neutral in the contest, has now swung over to the Tracy party...
...rules deal with the use of wireless and the use of aeroplanes. It is laid down that the radio stations of neutral powers must not be disturbed by belligerents. Neutral vessels sending information to a belligerent shall be liable to capture. If the message contains military intelligence, the aeroplane or vessel shall be deemed to have committed an act of warfare and shall be liable to be fired upon...
...Treaty of Versailles the Kiel Canal must remain open to all vessels of all nationalities at peace with Germany.) The Wimbledon was carrying munitions of war to Poland. Germany contends that to have allowed the ship to pass through the canal would have been an act prejudicial to her neutral attitude. The Allies maintain that a preliminary treaty of peace ending war between Poland and Russia was ratified November 2, 1920, and the final treaty was signed at Riga, March 18, 1921, or three days before the incident. It appears that Germany had no right to detain the ship. Professor...
...wily Turk, "nobody's moron" as he has been called, manipulated the claims of France and England at the last Lauzanne conference so as to bring those two governments upon the verge of a diplomatic break. Even the efforts of Ambassador Child as a neutral observer could not avert the deadlock which resulted. And as the second conference opens the Turk believes he has made his own position even more secure by tossing a bone in the form of the Chester concessions to the United States...
...question of the limitation of armaments of South America be solved through separate negotiations between the interested nations; that the Governments declare their desire for immutable peace and against armed peace; that they adhere to the Washington naval treaties, fixing the tonnage of capital ships and establishing immunity for neutral merchant ships from submarine attack; that they adhere to the various international conventions tending to prevent and humanize...