Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until a small-scale war between British troops and roving Arab guerrillas had developed did the British decide that final settlement of the Palestine problem could wait no longer. First British proposals, rejected by both Jews and Arabs and later abandoned by their sponsors, were for a partition of Palestine into separate Arab, Jewish and British-mandated territories. When this failed, Arab and Jewish delegations were brought to London to find a compromise. When these talks petered out "His Majesty's Government felt free to formulate their owrn policy...
After the British Cabinet last July had secretly decided to offer Czecho-Slovakia on the altar of Appeasement, Viscount Runciman was sent to Prague as an "unofficial mediator" to arrange a "peaceful settlement" to the Sudeten German problem. Lord Runciman was eminently successful. Last week, on his way home from a world-circling vacation trip, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, was questioned by newshawks on his availability as a mediator in the current Danzig dispute. Cracked light-hearted Lord Runciman: "You wouldn't want me to do that all over again...
...wealth and plenty. The six-week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects of the strike will continue to be evident in chart and index for weeks to come...
SHANGHAI. Friday--Police aided by U.S. Marines and British in infantrymen today began a house-to-house search of the Angic-American area of the International Settlement to round up suspected Chinese Nationalist terrorists...
...strike, which only recently was shifted to the supervision of the Division of Transport Workers of the C.I.O., will probably reach a settlement within the next few days according to both Union and Company officials...