Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hostile Critics. The opponents of the sale expressed themselves in no dubious terms...
...think the sale of arms by this Government to Mexico is a technical violation of international law. Actually there is no violation, but it departs from our American policy. It is unwise and will lead to bad results and weaken our position among the Latin American countries."-Senator King, Democrat, of Utah...
Judge Hugh M. Morris of the U. S. District Court at Wilmington, Del., gave an opinion of 20,000 words, denying the allegations of the Government that the sale was illegal because of an insufficient price, because of lack of authority, or because of a technical conspiracy...
...Daily Chronicle, considered to be Lloyd George's journal, stigmatized the proposed U. S. sale of arms to Mexico (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS) as "a perceptible step toward a de facto American protectorate" in that country...
Fighting was verbal rather than physical. President Obregon praised U. S. President Coolidge for backing the arms sale. General de la Huerta protested against the decision and as a counter-move issued a decree claiming the oil taxes in the name of the Revolution and under the provisions of the Huerta-Lamont agreement. Physical fighting was confined to unimportant engagements, the largest of which resulted in the defeat of the Revolutionary General, Romula Figueroa, and the loss...