Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure to stop the war has resulted from the policy of the two nations that are most in sympathy with its ideals. France and England, mutually engaged in working out their own diplomatic salvation, have shuffied the Council about like a football, making effective sanctions or a realistic settlement equally impossible at the outset. What little prestige the League has been able to salvage cannot be credited to Paris or London...
When Mussolini sits down to dictate his terms of settlement, term which no one can now contest, the nations that have backed the wrong horse may see their way to adopting an entirely new diplomatic technique. Either the League must be strongly supported to the common advantage of all, or the French system of alliances will come into universal use. In any event, if the nations come to realize that war cannot be averted by the monks' mummery of ineffective "sanctions", a more sternly pacifistic attitude, especially in the democratic countries, may prevail on the turbulent European scene...
...darkest clouds have rolled away," said he with a wave of his fork. "Final settlement of the war in Africa will be possible after the next session of the League of Nations...
This question should be considered by an impartial board of arbitration, instead of having the disputed fee put on the term bill in a high-handed manner without the consent of the parties billed. Dudley Hall has brought an effective settlement of the commuter problem, but don't unsettle the settlement by tactless administration. Charles B. Feibleman...
...railroad terminal at Fairbanks, Dr. Greist has nevertheless been host to several prominent U. S. citizens during the last decade. In 1926 Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, having sailed a dirigible across the North Pole, paused at Point Barrow, eleven miles north of Dr. Greist's settlement. More recently, the Lindberghs, flying to China, visited the Greists at Barrow. Last August when Flyers Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed on a river bank 15 miles from Barrow, Dr. Greist embalmed their bodies...