Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of lands seized since 1927 from U. S. farmers and ranchers in Mexico. To Mr. Hull's assertion that "The taking of property without compensation is not expropriation, it is confiscation," Mexican Foreign Secretary Eduardo Hay replied that no principle of international law "makes obligatory the payment of immediate compensation, nor even deferred compensation, for expropriations of a general and impersonal character...
...little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives to fix the value of the claims, and decide on a manner of payment in accordance with "Mexican...
...York Post noted the extensive efforts to save the suicide, asked: "If so much could be mobilized for one man, how much could be accomplished by a fully awakened common effort against hunger, slums and sickness?" The philosophic Washington Post considered Warde "a modern Faust" who "did not begrudge payment for the brief period of power granted him." The New York Herald Tribune, ever Republican, saw in Warde striking proof "that civilization is not the product of external rules and compulsions but of individual consent." To Hearst's New York Mirror, the helplessness of the people who watched Warde...
...Deal for the U. S.: "The issue is not whether Mexico should pursue social and economic policies designed to improve the standard of living of its people. The issue is whether, in pursuing them, the property of American nationals may be taken by the Mexican Government without making prompt payment of just compensation to the owners in accordance with the universally recognized rules of law and equity...
...weal takes precedence over all private gain," says this decree; army officers "may demand from any person subject to this law that he permit the use of objects he owns or holds for safe keeping, or that he transfer his rights to movable objects" such as automobiles or trucks. Payment for services required of civilians is to be made only "in so far as the services cannot justifiably be expected to be rendered free...