Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With China more than ever prostrated by her white-man-made silver crisis, Japanese Army commanders in Manchukuo and at Boxer Protocol garrisons in North China proceeded to make impossible demands on the Chinese Government, demands the mere granting of which would mean the abdication of the Chinese Government in North China...
Died. Warren Delano Robbins, 49, U. S. Minister to Canada, first cousin of President Roosevelt; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A career diplomat since 1909, he became chief of the Division of Protocol of the State Department in 1931, Minister to Canada...
...French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding the League of Nations does him less credit than the remainder of his opinions...
...Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
...BALKAN PACT (Feb. 9, 1934) signed at Athens by Foreign Ministers Maximos, Tewfik, Titulescu and Jeftitch of Greece, Turkey, Rumania and Yugoslavia pledges all signatories to defend the frontiers of each. Attached was a secret protocol, since divulged, extending the Pact to guarantee all Balkan frontiers against aggression by any Balkan State, and to punish any Balkan State which may join any State whatsoever which attacks a Balkan State. Unless they turn out to be scraps of paper, the Balkan Pact and protocols mean cast iron peace in Europe's inflammatory cockpit...