Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yugo-Slavia refused to sign, owing to the fact that she is expected to pay a portion of the Ottoman Debt by virtue of having annexed Turkish territory in the Balkan...
...actual ceremony of signing was excessively simple. Ismet Pasha, chief Turkish delegate, was the first to sign for his country. After the remaining six plenipotentiaries had signed, Herr Karl Scheurer, President of the Swiss Confederation, made the following address...
...obliged to alter their tone to the Turks, because Turkey appeared before them as a conqueror. The Allies, led by the domineering Lord Curzon, British plenipotentiary to the Conference, merely dropped the form of their claims but "held rigidly to the substance. Turkey was told to go home and sign the treaty. She was warned not to break the peace, and with this final admonition the Allied delegates entered their wagon-lits and steamed...
...Turks was simply illegal. Mr. Grew icily referred the British representative to the three years' correspondence between the British and American Governments upon the subject. M. Otchiai, Japanese Ambassador to Italy and delegate at Lausanne, came unexpectedly to America's support, announcing that Japan would not sign the Concessions Protocol because it violated the Open Door (so dear to the Japanese in Korea). Ismet, much surprised, said that Turkey would decide her own economic policy without outside interference. But none the less the British claims tumbled out of the Treaty, to be argued directly between London and Washington...
...sign of the times, it is reported that seashore cottages do not rent quite so readily this summer as last, and reckless spending is in little evidence save among bricklayers, carpenters, etc. Money is easy, though rates are firm...