Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Acting Secretary of State Castle sent a brief note to the British Embassy in Washington accepting the League of Nations' invitation to an International Monetary & Economic Conference. This parley, an outgrowth of the Lausanne agreement, will probably be held in London during the autumn. The U. S. is to join an organization committee to prepare agenda...
...trade problems, which the U. S. would attend. U. S. opinion decided almost immediately that this later Conference would be a united attempt on the part of Europe to force revision or cancellation of War Debts. On May 31 Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. would attend no parley which discussed reparations, debts, or specific tariff rates. Last week British Charge d'Affaires Francis d'Arcy Godolperin Osborne carried to Secretary Stimson official invitations from Ramsay MacDonald as president of the Lausanne Conference and from Sir John Simon as British Foreign Minister to take part...
...international oil meetings. Last week Russian scientists announced not one such new field but three, all strategically located in the Ural mountains, all prodigiously rich. Production from these fields, they said, would free all other Soviet oil for export. Because the revelation came hard upon an international oil parley which collapsed when Russia would not accept offered terms (TIME, June 13) oilmen accepted it with reservations...
...Japan was by no means at war with Russia yet. A Soviet consular official, traveling in a special five-car train with Red Army guards, rumbled into Harbin, perhaps for a parley with General Honjo...
Since Statesman Stimson, Signer Grandi and German Chancellor Heinrich Briining were already in Geneva the world Press treated its readers to such headlines as SURPRISE 5-POWER PARLEY.* What did it all mean? In Geneva one of the first things reported by correspondents was the behavior of Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson (the former Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn.) as she was escorted into the Geneva Disarmament Conference Building by Mr. MacDonald...