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Terms: the 253 claims already filed by U. S. landowners, and all future claims, will be adjudicated by a two-man commission, one member chosen by each country. If these two fail to agree a third commissioner will be appointed by a permanent commission of inquiry at Washington. Mexico will put $1,000,000 on the line by May 1939, at least that sum each year thereafter until the claims, unofficially estimated at $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, are settled. As his commissioner President Roosevelt promptly chose Lawrence Lawson of the U.S.-Mexican International Boundary Commission. President Cardenas...
...method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference and thus to contribute to the assurance of peace in Europe." In Paris, where Premier Daladier enjoyed the greatest ovation in modern French history on his return from Munich, he was severely criticized the morning afterward for not having obtained from Adolf Hitler some such two-man peace pledge as Mr. Chamberlain got. It was this document, not the four-power pact dismembering Czechoslovakia, which...
...expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair dealing of all 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that Mexico ought at least to stop expropriating the lands of U. S. owners, agree to a two-man (U. S. and Mexican) commission to fix values, and start putting aside some cash to pay for lands already taken or to be taken in future...
...When the two-man Board went ahead with its work without him, he sought to prove their actions invalid. Then they adopted a formal rule of majority procedure, and thereafter Chairman Morgan was not isolated by them, but "by his own action, removed himself" from the Board's work by chronic dissent, or by absence (28 out of 94 meetings...
Each House will send a two-man team to League contests and House squads will be divided into three groups, one for each League. The membership of the teams will rotate among the members of the squads so every man will have the chance to speak at loast twice during a semester...