Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legality of Zollverein. Ordinarily the Council dodges important decisions, was expected last week to dodge by sending Zollverein to the World Court. To create a diversion the French delegation circulated a plan 50 pages long. In essence it proposed (as a substitute for bilateral customs unions) a pan-European pact for economic and financial cooperation. As France now holds the lion's share of Europe's gold, and as money talks, much may come of this plan. But on its face it looked only a trifle less vague than the "United States of Europe." Abruptly the League...
...days ago Litvinoff addressed the conference on the subject of the world's present condition. Advocating his pact for economic non-aggression, he held the attention of the entire body of delegates with an analysis of the post-warera. Reparations settlements, high tariff barriers, unprecedented unemployment, and disproportionate distribution of the world's gold supply the speaker cited as the chief reasons for our present uneasy international feelings...
...specific naval disarmament question confined to Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, with the conferences in Geneva in 1927 and in London in 1930. I likewise had the opportunity to work with Secretary Kellogg in the arduous negotiations preceding the conclusion of the Kellogg Pact, and went to Paris shortly before the signature to make the final arrangements for that purpose. In all these experiences I have been particularly struck by the earnestness and intensity with which the responsible heads and representatives of the countries of the world are applying themselves to the problem of immediate mitigation...
...final showdown words did not count. Decisive was the Liberal-Laborite ("Lib-Lab") Pact made just before Parliament recessed between Scot MacDonald and Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, frequently rumored since to have broken down...
Statesman Mo. Statesman Stimson tried, failed two years ago to make peace between China and Russia by invoking the Kellogg Pact (TIME, Aug. 5, 1929). Ignoring him, Chinese and Soviet statesmen made their own peace at far away Habarovsk on Soviet soil (see map). But this peace has been followed by a host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with...