Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Complete agreement and cordiality marked the proceedings of the conference, which in a short time was considered to have settled some questions of paramount importance. The next meeting of the Entente will be held in June and July at Prague, capital of Czecho-Slovakia...
...peace, I am not in favor of excess profits taxes. . . . For seven years the people have borne with uncomplaining courage the tremendous burden of national and local taxation. . . . Of all services which the Congress can render to the country, I have no hesitation in declaring this one to be paramount...
...subject of paramount interest, Empire defense, was shortly to come up before the Conference...
...Admiral van Karnebeek (TIME, May 19). This fact led to a wide popular outburst on the part of the Dutch people against the proposed Government plan to increase the Navy, which means that the taxpayers will be burdened with new taxation at a time when economy should be the paramount consideration, especially since the Ruhr occupation has had disastrous effects on Dutch trade. There seems little chance of the Government obtaining a majority in the Second Chamber for a Navy bill...
Both parties are obviously toying with Western public opinion and playing for time, because the paramount issue has no relation to the ostensible points of variance. For both countries the condition of China, now approaching "a geographical expression," is the paramount interest. When the trifling disputes directly treated are out of the way, Japanese and Russian influence can be made predominant in Northern and Eastern China, a condition pointing directly to a forward policy by the two Powers against European Far Eastern possessions. Singapore, a base which the British are now rapidly developing to guard the right flank...