Word: trading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview yesterday Fairbank described how our trade in China has always been dependent upon British sea power, a power which is rapidly diminishing in the Far East...
...British opened China to Western trade by force," he said. "We profited by their use of force. Our open door policy is essentially the British policy. Now that the French and British are unable to do much in China, we will have to implement by force the open door policy, or we will have to abandon...
Hong Kong was once a valve controlling the flow of fabulous trade out of South China. Then the Japanese got a valve of their own farther up the pipe at Canton, and Hong Kong became a comparatively dead city. It is still one of the most beautiful ports in the world-its harbor is like a Wedgwood plate full of sugar buns-but it is now a negligible trade centre, and Britain plans to abandon it at the drop of a bomb...
...Moscow it was officially announced that Japanese Ambassador Shigenori Togo and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov had found a "community of views ... on the fundamental principles upon which a Soviet-Japanese trade agreement must be based." In recent Russian diplomacy, non-aggression pacts have followed trade agreements as faithfully as the little lamb trailed Mary...
...lapsed temporarily into the name-calling stage, big bad news in the Baltic last week came from Sweden. There the national budget, for years as soundly balanced as the Great Wallendas, was shown to have taken a terrific topple from the high wire. Loss of revenues due to wartime trade curtailment, plus the cost of keeping the Army and Navy mobilized for emergency, plus armament purchases and providing urban Swedes with gas masks and air-raid shelters, had largely done the job. Finance Minister Dr. Ernst Wigforss announced that since he reported balance to the Riksdag last January, the Kingdom...