Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last official act of Sir Auckland Geddes, retiring British Ambassador, before sailing for home last week, was to sign with Secretary Hughes the so-called "Rum pact." Its chief provisions...
...details were available, nothing definite could be said either for or against the pact. The advantages for France if she has succeeded in connecting the Czecho-Slovak metallurgical industry, in which she owns half the capital, with the French iron and steel industry, plus the Ruhr coal, are that it completes France's control of the industry on the continent and places France in a stronger position than ever...
...seems self-evident that ambassadors should be selected upon the basis of ability and experience. No effective reform, however, can be instituted until Congressmen realize the value of a trained diplomatic service. Perhaps the failure of the Versailles treaty will point the moral, for it was definitely a pact written by politicians who had to arrange the provisions to humor their constituencies. The first improvement should be the raising of diplomats' salaries to the point where other than millionaires can accept the post of ambassador. Until then the "brilliant but poor" college man cannot enter the service; nor will...
...arms pact that is not disarming...
...Turks went back to Angora and the Great National Assembly declined to sign a Treaty which they interpreted as being contrary to their National Pact. On April 23, 1923, the second session of the Conference began...