Word: truce
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...proposed one-year naval building truce, by suspending all construction (87,600 tons), would serve only to "widen the gap" between the U.S. fleet and other powers...
...Last week 36 nations, including the U. S., Japan and France, had informally signified their willingness to join a naval building truce for one year. Great Britain continued silent...
Hans Luther, President of the Reichsbank, sent a seven-page cable to the heads of all the important central banks in the world begging a credit truce for Germany. This was the recommendation of the London conference three weeks ago; most international bankers have already agreed to it in principle. Dr. Luther wanted a definite statement that foreign banks would not withdraw for six months credits with German banks and industries outstanding on July 13. Wall Street quibbled...
...back to London immediately. By telephone Secretary Stimson reported two or three times a day to the White House on the preliminary negotiations in Paris between the French and German ministers. When he detailed a French plan whereby, to get a loan, Germany must declare a political truce for ten years against the Versailles Treaty and the status quo of Europe guaranteed by the other powers, President Hoover looked glum, said something about such an idea being "unacceptable" to the U. S. Nor, he indicated, would the U. S. act as guarantor on any German loan, because that could...
...Mother Advocate's sixty-fifth birthday provides an occasion for declaring a verbal truce, however. Decked out in her new white party dress, with only a brightened green frill as a vestige of the by-gone years, she has made her dowager debut. Whereas Pegasus, her ancestral sire, has been rejuvenated by Spring, she has had a completely modern face-lifting. But the old lady was clever enough to realize the futility of mere external dressing up. A blood transfusion was made and in her haughty blue veins there now flow some new corpuscles--some with a crimson tinge...