Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...000th "document," deposited quite unceremoniously last week, consisted of a packet of notes exchanged between Norway and Sweden respecting the continuance of the Swedish-Norwegian Arbitration Convention of 1905. Statisticians observed that 940 treaties have already been published by the League Secretariat, in 35 volumes of 400 pages each. Further they noted that all these documents have been published in French and English, and additionally in the language of origin when that happens to be neither French nor English. To date, Germany though not a member of the League has made heavy contributions to the documents on register...
...there are some practical needs to be met. We have made little progress in arbitration since the war. Other countries have made much. In June, 1924, we signed an arbitration treaty with Sweden which followed the old style of reserving questions of national honor and vital interest. As M. Hymans recently told the Belgian Parliament, that formula is outworn. But we have been held back by our failure to take part in the current work of organization...
...reconvened; 2) That no disciplinary action would be taken against Immigration Commissioner H. H. Curran, who two months ago attacked the new system of examining immigrants abroad rather than at Ellis Island. (This system, tried out in England and Ireland, is apparently pleasing to foreign countries. Belgium, Germany, Holland, Sweden and Denmark have asked to have it extended to them...
...Customs Conference proceeded with its sessions in the magnificent Winter Palace of the old Forbidden City. And the delegates, secretaries, assistants, representing the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Japan and China*- with those of Norway, Sweden and Denmark participating by special adherence-swelled the assembly to well over 500 persons, of whom more than half were Chinese, all but one Occidentally clad...
Several of the foreign students are either the official representatives of their governments, or have official connections. The countries represented are China, Cuba, Great Britain, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Siam, Sweden, and Switzerland...