Word: certain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council. It will be divided into six component executive committees, for joint action with respect to aviation, munitions & war materials, oil, food, shipping, economic warfare. Much collaboration is already afoot by Allied commissions in some of these fields. Importance of establishing a Supreme Economic Council is to insure that certain basic principles are observed all down the line. As announced last week, three of these principles...
...Watt of the London Daily Telegraph, with the Times the newsorgan closest to the British Government, significantly told Canadians: "I can say on the very best authority that British political circles are thinking in terms of federation after the war. I believe they are ready to give up certain essential elements of sovereignty in order to establish some form of world order...
...contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have been spared the horrors of war, such as defeated Poland, and our sons have not been led into battle, as in the case of Austria. You are able, almost all of you, to work in peace. In certain ways your position is probably better than that of a neutral country...
...Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving, estate-looting Communist guerrillas have had. Government soldiers get $7.50 to $9 (Chinese) per month; Communist soldiers get $1. The Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy...
Sweden's large-scale purchases of munitions, fuels, certain foods and other "preparedness goods" were revealed to have run up during the past nine months an import balance of 345,000,000 kronor, whereas for the similar period last year Sweden's surplus of imports over exports was only a mildly depressing 140,000,000. Since War II broke, Dr. Wigforss revealed, Sweden has lost roughly 300,000,000 kronor of foreign exchange, due partly to "hot money" withdrawals by investors who are afraid the Soviet Union will yet muscle into Scandinavia as it has into the Baltic...