Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference also agreed to a preferential tariff for British goods on the following articles: canned salmon, apples, dried fruits, honey, fruit juices, preserved fruits, and possibly on sugar and tobacco. In addition to this agreement was understood to have been made on "manufactured goods," but this enigmatical phrase of Premier Baldwin was not elucidated...
...must be understood that those parts of the program enacted by the Imperial Conference have to be passed by all Governments concerned before they become operative. In view of impending general elections in Britain, the fate of the tariff preference, for example, is uncertain and may come to little, as did the Tariff Reform policy of Joseph Chamberlain...
...reparations (meaning what Germany can pay from now until Jan. 1, 1930). This renders the conference useless, as at least a six-year moratorium of reparation payments must be granted to Germany. Furthermore, French insistence on keeping the Ruhr problem entirely out-side the orbit of the conference was understood to have been another factor unacceptable to the U. S. Government. President Coolidge ("the taciturn") described the conference as restricted by the French as " wholly futile and useless." Secretary Hughes said that an inquiry under such terms would be reduced to a mere "audit." Although the door was left open...
...understood that the Bulgarian Government had also carried out the remaining conditions as set forth in the 48-hour ultimatum...
...with hands which noticeably wear several jeweled rings and gesticulate in square, but expressive fashion, the great Spanish spinner of yarns is a perfect echo of the life he has led. He does not speak in English. I speak no Spanish, little French. He spoke in French and I understood. A friend put my questions...