Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next play was clearly up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the leader of the other great power whose home shores are washed by the Pacific and who has been the defender of unrestricted trade with the Orient ever since the China Open Door policy was sponsored by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899. U. S. warships commanded by Commodore Perry opened up Japan to trade with the Occident in 1854, and today no argument short of dispatching units of the U. S. Navy to Japanese waters seemed likely to be effective. There was no sign that the President even...
This sounded to Occidentals who know the Orient as if Japan proposes to slam the "Open Door" to Occidental trade with China, hog it herself, and renounce the Washington Nine Power Treaty of 1922. In confirmation of these fears the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared in Tokyo: "Japan considers the Nine Power Treaty obsolete or 'dead.' Whether we will denounce it or withdraw has not yet been decided. The [Japanese] Government is examining the advantages of creation of a Tri-Power Pact [of Japan, Manchukuo and China...
...19th Century grave charges of maladministration were made against the company's rule. Arab slavers had been largely suppressed, it was admitted, but cannibalism was practiced, natives were forced into labor and the association had a strangle grip on all trade. Various commissions of inquiry failed to humanize the company's rule and finally in 1908 the Belgian Government formally took over the Congo's administration...
...Danube via the Oder and the Elbe across Czechoslovakia. Suggested by Dr. Walther Funk, German Minister of Economic Affairs, was the plan that Germany pay the costs, Czechoslovakia do the work. Virtually certain of adoption, this plan would complete the economic subjugation of Czechoslovakia, insure Germany doubly against a trade blockade in the future, and, by thus binding ancient Bohemia all round with Reich boundaries, put the final proof to Bismarck's theory that whoever rules Bohemia is master of Europe...
Since early this year all but one of the 15 Dollar liners, all named after U. S. Presidents, have gone out of service. As one by one they are put back in commission each will trade in its $$ for eagles. This change signifies: 1) the passing of the once mighty Dollar line from the high seas, and 2) the entrance of the U. S. Maritime Commission into bigtime shipping...