Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he had changed his mind, but also that he would start a movement in the next session of Congress to have the U. S. withdraw its resolution for entrance into the World Court. Said he: "I feel that it is more apparent now than it was when the question was before the Senate that the people of other nations-not necessarily the Governments but the people-are most unfriendly in their attitude toward our country. Since that spirit prevails, I don't see that any good can come out of our belonging to the World Court...
...neutrality of Tangier has been established and the city placed under the control of an international commission whose members are the eight local consular officers of the Powers adherent to the Act of Algeciras. Therefore, the Spanish declaration of last week re-opened on a trumped-up issue a question long ago adjusted mutually by the Powers, and stirred again many always delicate issues. For example, Britain has never been willing that any one Continental power should dominate Tangier lest it be fortified into a menace to the route to India. No one believed last week that Dictator Premier Primo...
...Seat Question. There met at Geneva last week an assembly almost more important than those which will gather later: The Committee on Reorganization of the League Council...
...Brazil, the popular villain of this obstruction, gave notice of her resignation from the League-effective two years hence (TIME, June 21). Spain, equally bent on obtaining a permanent seat, launched a campaign of pressure against the League Powers which culminated last week in the reopening of the Tangier question. (See INTERNATIONAL...
Unless the Reorganization Committee can find some formula of compromise on the seat question, it is not too much to say that the whole validity of the League stands menaced...