Word: protocole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek started the fight, taxed Cuba with being the sole objector to unanimous adoption of the World Court's so-called "Revision Protocol."? Already 24 League states have ratified the change. Indignantly M. Politis rose to declare that "a great effort of international goodwill has been made by all save one state. . . . Though it may not be fitting to criticize that state, does not this most unusual situation require some explanation...
Tucked away in the protocol of revision to which Cuba objects is a clause providing that hereafter World Court judges shall spend their whole time at The Hague. This displeases Cuba's World Court bencher, famed Judge Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, recent President of the Pan-American Congress (TIME, Jan. 16 & Feb. 27, 1928). Trading on his international prestige, on his close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play...
...head-of-state in mid-June. Unexpectedly the State Department learned that Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil, planned to return President Hoover's goodwill visit in mid-June. The prospect of two Latin-American Presidents-elect simultaneously in Washington unnerved the State Department's master of protocol to the point of requesting Dr. Olaya to advance his transmogrification...
...nothing remained of mutual cooperation, nothing of confidence in Germany, nothing of helping Germany to carry out the difficult task prescribed in the Young Plan. ... I am even now willing to accept the Young Plan in the Young spirit. What is now before the Reichstag I call the Hague Protocol. Sanctions [the right of the Creditor Powers to punish Germany if she defaults] have been introduced again. . . . Germany won't be a free agent after all, although Young . . . wanted this. Sanctions have nothing in common with the Young Plan as conceived in Paris...
...again sputtered the same correspondent, "don't you know that Foreign Minister Julius Curtius [who signed the Young Plan for Germany at The Hague] considers that what you call the 'Hague Protocol' does not permit the applications of sanctions against Germany...