Word: quo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factors necessary to its future well-being. He makes it evident that prior to the advent of Hitler as Reichsfuehrer, there was no question as to which of the three alternatives Saarlanders would choose in the coming plebiscite: union with Germany, France, or continuation of the status quo, i.e., control by the League of Nations. Every indication pointed to an overwhelming vote in favor of return to Germany. But on the chaos now reigning in the Reich, Saarlanders look askance; the district is predominantly Catholic, and relations between Berlin and the Vatican leave a great deal to be desired...
Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's is poetic Mr. Quo Taichi. His contribution to the London Naval parleys (TIME, Oct. 29, et seq.) to which he was not invited, is a bland little ideograph meaning "If you give naval equality to Japan you give wings to the tiger...
Last week the smile on the face of Mr. Quo would not come off. He rejoiced that the U. S. and Britain had decided not to give wings to the tiger. That the tiger was proposing to sprout wings anyhow seemed to Mr. Quo a fact which he could accept with poetic stoicism. No one else in the world received with more perfect aplomb the dread, though long expected announcement of Japan's Privy Council last week that the Imperial Government denounces the Washington Naval Treaty, thus causing it to expire...
These proposals are based on a Japanese contention that the ancient 5-5-3 ratio is outmoded, for the following recently developed reasons: Japan's need of a large navy to protect Manachukuo and the status quo of the Far East; her economic necessity of concentrating in small rather than large ships; her fear of heavy American and British navies in the Pacific as an actual threat to herself, and her determination not to brook the superiority complex of the Occidentals in their efforts to limit the size of her armaments...
...whether they intend or not to subscribe to or avoid their European duty. There is one principle of which everyone must recognize the necessity: the maintenance of present frontiers. Whoever changes frontier posts troubles the peace of Europe." So, Deutscher Volk, do your duty. Keep the peace. Shout "Status quo" and "Vive la France...