Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood Poland's Delegation at Geneva last week. In the name of their Government they endorsed all League sanctions against Italy, including the drastic buy-nothing-from-Italy sanction known as "Proposal No. 3." But, announced the Poles, until Italians complete and deliver to Poland the warships they are now building for her near Trieste, the Polish Government reserves the right not to be bound by any interpretation of sanctions which would prevent her from buying warships from Italy...
...Great stir greeted word that Belgium had actually adopted the no-credit-to-Italy sanction, but this exciting news proved false. At week's end only Communist Russia had officially shut off extension of credits to Fascist Italy. Bursting with suspicion, Russia's Foreign Commissar Litvinoff glared at Geneva's assembled Capitalist statesmen, told them tartly that the Soviet Union will keep vigilant watch and at the first sign that they are chiseling on sanctions will herself resume trade with Italy...
Rome heard that Premier Mussolini, while still agreeable to maximum League exploitation for electioneering purposes, and while still standing on his public pledge not to reply to merely economic and fiscal sanctions with acts of war, demanded last week public retraction from London of what virtually the whole European Press was saying, namely that 147 British warships anchored on Italy's war flanks meant in substance: "Stanley Baldwin is out for Benito Mussolini's hide and that means the Dictator is through." This British massing of war boats, the Italian Government spokesman pointed out, was ordered by London...
...work. During hearings on his employes' complaints last spring the State charged that Bergoff Detective Service, Inc. was simply a blind for unlicensed Bergoff Service Bureau, its sole purpose being to give the impression that Bergoff's strikebreaking activities were carried on with the State's sanction. On those grounds last week Bergoff's detective license was revoked...
...Memorial Society has already made plans for creating student interest in this great celebration. It has gone farther than this, and has compiled a list of suggestions as to how to make the celebration more interesting for the undergraduate. IT hopes to receive official sanction of many projects that should make this event as important to the Harvard students of the present as it will be to those of the past. And, lastly, it is striving to make possible convenient and inexpensive accomodations for undergraduates at the early September celebration...