Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action, issued no statements (see p. 21). > Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera called to thank the President for U. S. courtesies upon the death of Mexico's air ace, Francisco Sarabia (TIME, June 19). The President seized the opportunity to ask Mexico to speed up its settlement of U. S. oil expropriation claims...
...18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched from southern Burma to beyond Vladivostok. Moreover, native Chinese businessmen had begun to give not only European and American foreign devils but the despised Japanese "dwarf monkeys" real business competition in the treaty ports and the international settlement...
...Secretary Lord Halifax, who spoke in the House of Lords. Ostensibly the Foreign Secretary simply reassured Germany that the idea of "encirclement" was furthest from British thoughts. But when he talked about "problems which may now or hereafter appear likely to disturb international order," looked forward to a "peace settlement" and even referred to "economic Lebensraum" for Germany, many anti-Nazi Britons were sure that the British Government, through its Foreign Secretary, was talking appeasement again on the pre-Munich model...
...other nations could be satisfied, even if this meant some adjustment of the existing state of things," said Mr. Chamberlain. Day later he repeated his offer: "We are ready to discuss around the table claims of Germany or any other country, provided there seems a reasonable prospect of settlement...
Manhandled. Shanghai's muddy, winding, sampan-littered Whangpoo River divides the big modern buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested...