Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Plainly these parallel statements indicate well-nigh complete agreement between Britain and the U. S. A two-power treaty could have been signed any day last week. But the great issue of whether France will concede parity to Italy ?as Britain has to the U. S.?remained unsettled, with both parties snarling, and with the French especially angry because their P. T. F. (Proposition Transactionelle Franqaise) or French Basis for Bargaining had been simply ignored by Statesman Stimson, and Statesman MacDonald had snubbed (see Cruisers above) the Tardieu proposal for limitation by "global tonnage...