Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engert for Hanson, Though U. S. peace societies continued to press President Roosevelt at least to invoke the Briand-Kellogg Pact formally, the White House lingers remained crossed last week. Famed State Department "Trouble Shooter" George Hanson who was dispatched to Addis Ababa last month with a book about Ethiopia called The Hell-Hole of Creation in his luggage (TIME, July 8), received countermanding orders last week when it was realized in Washington that his knowledge of Chinese dialects and experience in dealing with Chinese bandits might not be of great help in shooting Ethiopian trouble. Mr. Hanson was therefore...
...appeal last week to President Roosevelt and the collective conscience of U. S. citizens. Resident in Ethiopia are 125 U. S. citizens, 110 of them missionaries. Judging by them His Majesty felt he was appealing to a highly Christian people who had given the world the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." When Ethiopia was successfully pressed by President Coolidge to adhere to this Pact, Ethiopians hoped they had an ace of some sort in the hole, and they looked to President Roosevelt last week to make Premier Mussolini renounce his blatantly announced...
...Furthermore, and of great importance, in view of the provisions of the [Kellogg] Pact of Paris, to which both Italy and Abyssinia are parties, in common with sixty-one other countries, my Government would be loathe to believe that either of them would resort to other than pacific means as a method of dealing with this controversy or would permit any situation to arise which would be inconsistent with the commitments of the Pact...
Then lofting his economic arguments to an even less factual plane, Director Driscoll submitted to the committee a batch of photographs so that the French trade pact negotiators "may be able to visualize by actual observation the contented, happy look of our people...
...behalf of a tariff reduction. They pointed out that devaluation of the dollar had in effect nearly doubled the barrier to French imports. If the 90% duty on French lace were halved, domestic lace-makers would still enjoy more protection than they did three years ago. What the trade pact negotiators must ponder is whether concessions to France, where lace-making is a major industry employing 50,000 people, will gain markets for enough U. S. exports to compensate for unemployment created in the U. S. lace industry...