Word: protective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this act, there have been six armed Syrian insurrections. Only one of these received any mention in the newspapers of this country. This notice was confined to a small piece in a New York paper saying that American property was endangered and that United States destroyers had sailed to protect it. Three successive French military governors have been sent to Syria, each one worse than his predecessor. Recently the home government realizing its mistake established a civil government...
...sanctioned frequent American intervention and more frequent threats of it. This policy has crystallized in the mind of the American, Industrialist with holdings in Mexico into the habit of appeal to the United States Government for security of his property. Such appeals are, in their essence, appeals to protect rights that the Mexican Government alone ought to be competent, not only to protect, but also to define; and are subversive to its every attempt to assert itself...
...therefore unfortunate that Foreign Minister Saenz employs a legal fallacy in refuting the American allegation that Mexico has violated, by her land laws, a treaty of the Obregon administration, known as the Claims Commission agreement. Mr. Saenz replies that the Mexican courts will protect the treaty against any legislative infringement that may have occurred, as soon as a pertinent case arises for adjudication: It is the prevailing interpretation, however, that, as far as a nation's courts are concerned, a law subsequent to and infringing a treaty is valid, just as an ordinary repeal is valid. And all that...
...held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru has been incensed by the alleged "Chileanization" of Tacna-Arica by Chile in an attempt to "fix" the plebiscite...
...Japanese troops recently despatched from Port Arthur to protect foreign interests in the vicinity of Mukden (TIME, Dec. 28) began to retire following the victory of the pro-Japanese Chang. Persistent rumors to the effect that Japanese soldiers disguised in Chinese uniforms had aided Chang were flatly denied at Tokyo, where everyone in official circles professed to be horrified by the barbaric conduct of victor Chang...