Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, where Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities, shook the hand of China's Director of Intelligence Samuel Chang, then had his leg amputated...
...political independence of any American State shall be considered an act of aggression against the States which sign this declaration." Thus the U. S., willy-nilly, as good as pledged military protection to the hemisphere. El Mercurio of Santiago, Chile, enthusiastically called this declaration "the most important and significant agreement ever reached in the American Hemisphere, and perhaps in the world...
...policy, Argentines say, the U. S. must take some of the meats and grains that formerly went to Europe, which the food-surfeited U. S. has so far refused to do. This week Argentine Delegate Dr. Leopoldo Melo was in Washington, where he hoped to wangle an agreement to get into the U. S. some Argentine frozen beef. With such an agreement in his pocket when he returns to Buenos Aires, he may find his country less unwilling to trail along with the U. S. in hemisphere policy...
Good or bad, the figures could not pierce the pall at the Palace. They were ancient history; the delegates were worried about Tomorrow. Long had the Council plumped for more and freer trade, steadily endorsed the reciprocal trade agreement program of Cordell Hull. Last week it watched the Secretary of State take one more backward step in his losing battle for commercial freedom: to the long list of U. S. foreign-trade restrictions was added an embargo on aviation gasoline to countries outside the Western Hemisphere. Free traders confronted in San Francisco the question that lurks at every...
...methods had a spur-of-the-moment look, gave no hint of how prices might be controlled in the face of a real inflation. But last week that hint was given. The offending commodity: chemical wood pulp used for paper, rayon, explosives. The method: a round-table agreement. Franklin Roosevelt, in describing it, clearly indicated that his Defense Advisory Commission had established a precedent...