Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers, and that makes its necessary to spread the effectives pretty thin to cover the various posts. Coast defense units are everywhere being pared to the quick, and even at that all but the more important fortifications are being abandoned. Our contingent in Germany is being withdrawn. In the Philippines, in Hawaii, at Panama, barely enough men are maintained to man the necessary defences; and complaints are frequently coming in that the protention afforded is inadequate and leaves no margin of safety. This is the situation under the plan now in effect; further cutting down in the interests of temporary...
Isadore Shapiro '23, A. B. Smith '24, L. L. Shea sG.B., G. H. Courtney '25, T. B. Coolidge '23, A. F. Gegner '23, H. T. Pearson '24, and D. A. Colvin '24 have withdrawn from the tournament...
Such an opinion, if genuinely held to by the other powers, would seriously complicate and retard future negotiations. Overtures preliminary to new treatles would be less frank; other nations would be less frank; other nations would concede less, expecting that our concessions would be withdrawn later; others, too, might try their hand at "reserving". Negotiations would thus extend from the council-table, through the ratifying bodies, to a grand international committee of conference designed to smooth over the objections which the various parliaments had enacted. This procedure would be open diplomacy openly arrived at but it is indirect, slow...
...been announced that the collection of sheets from the "Fatherless Children of France Book", which have been on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library since January 9, will be withdrawn in the near future. This collection consists of 350 original manuscripts and sketches by distinguished writers and artists of the Allied Nations...
...Such rights were justifiable when first established, for Chinese justice was then not conducted according to methods which western nations regarded as wholly civilized. It was permissible in Chinese courts, for example, to extort testimony by torture. Now the Powers here assembled have agreed that foreign courts will be withdrawn as soon as an international commission can determine that Chinese courts are adequate...