Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week when the Japanese-French agreement on Indo-China forced U. S. action. There was nothing sensational about Secretary Hull's condemnation of the deal. Nor was it exceptional news when, two days later, Jesse Jones announced an Export-Import Bank loan of $25,000,000 to stabilize Chinese currency-for weeks Financier T. V. Soong has haunted Washington, working for a $100,000,000 loan. There was nothing out of the ordinary when President Roosevelt next decreed a complete embargo on shipments of scrap iron and steel to Japan. In the midst of these moves, whose only...
...flow, bluff-&-counterbluff attack to the flood for a fourth time, smashed through to a final decision. The French agreed to permit three Japanese air stations in Tonkin, with 6,000 troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced...
...Abbe Sieyes who was asked what he had done in the Great French Revolution, Sir Samuel could faithfully reply: 'I kept alive.' " Hoare's record includes negotiating, without the knowledge of the French, the British-German naval pact, selling Haile Selassie out in the Hoare-Laval agreement. In fact, "as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare passed from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...
...credo adopted at the meeting stresses the importance of the Nazi menace and the necessity of proper defense against it, including a "working agreement with Great Britain...
...criticisms of conscription as a "base on balls for our own fascists" is concerned, I find myself in substantial agreement. But where Marx seeks to repeal the base on balls, I think it is more practical to try to hold the "undemocrats" scoreless from this point on. That is, I would concentrate our efforts on the issues of administration of the conscription act, industrial control, civil liberties, social reform through taxation, and so forth. The Prohibition experience would indicate that you cannot repeal a law immediately after its passage, but only after it has proved a failure. Liberal energies...