Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very shortly Senator Johnson's chortle died in his throat. Secretary of State Hull emerged from a conference with President Roosevelt to announce, in diplomatic language as placid as its true import was severe, that the U. S. would now follow Britain's gesture of appeasement with one of menace. Even as the U. S. fleet was moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust...
...explain. The Hudson-Wohlthat discussions were "private" and "unofficial" and the Cabinet knew nothing about them in advance, the Prime Minister reiterated. The Secretary and the foreign trade expert were simply discussing how international confidence could be restored, and naturally they mentioned international trade, barter agreements, exchange restrictions, import quotas. But there was "nothing unusual" in the talks and certainly no loan was proposed...
Since there is "peace," China has been able to obtain U. S. loans (notably $25,000,000 last December from the Export-Import Bank), and to buy U. S. munitions, motor trucks, airplanes. Some economists and humanitarians maintain that Japan has gained more than China by being able to buy at will in the U. S., but Chiang Kai-shek presumably thinks otherwise for he could invoke the Neutrality Act by simply declaring war on Japan. Meanwhile, some two million people have been killed in China, and the U. S. has not been involved...
...have a horse, you will have to import food for it, because you won't be able to grow any yourself...
...pigs, a tax on goods-in-stock, a tax on travel, and a, tax on the movement of all commodities. Farm animals have been seized, and the metal parts of tools confiscated. Finally, Japanese have at tempted to force their own currency and their own import prices on Chinese buyers and sellers in North China...