Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other articles granted the U. S. the right to maintain a naval base in Cuba, and approved the legality of all acts of the U. S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish War. These two articles of the 1903 pact were all that were retained in the treaty...
...different was the meeting in Rome of the experts whom Italy's Mussolini, Austria's Dollfuss and Hungary's Gömbbs had named to draw up an economic agreement to implement their Three Power Pact (TIME, March 26). Last week the experts had something to show. Austria and Italy had agreed to buy most of Hungary's surplus wheat at a fixed minimum price of 92.6? a bu.; Hungary and Italy, to buy Austria's lumber and wood-pulp; Austria and Hungary to lower tariffs 10% on any goods that pass through Italy...
...Hungary, Boske Jeftitch has trotted up & down the Balkan corridor trying to organ ize a separate Jugoslav-Turkish-Bulgarian entente. The advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life hideous and uncertain in Sofia for many a year. On his honor, Premier Nicholas Mushanoff swore that Bulgarian Macedonians have been as mild as lambs since last June, though up to that time...
...tentative agreement had been reached but technical snags were struck. Finally in The Hague last week the British and the Dutch, acting as principals for eight Far Eastern rubber lands, which together produce about 95% of the world's supply, put their hands to a five-year restriction pact...
...rubber manufacturers, who use nearly two-thirds of the world's production, would have been more alarmed than they were last week had they not considered these three facts: 1) the pact has yet to be approved by the governments of the eight contracting parties: 2 ) a panel of U. S. and European rubber users will be invited to consult with the international regulating committee; 3) the British Rubber Growers Association, the power behind the pact, issued a statement declaring that "whatever its temporary attractions, an excessive price would not be for the permanent welfare of the industry...