Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot: The two victims will be towed from Boston in the latter part of August. They will be anchored off Cape Hatteras at the killers' mercy. (There are not sufficient funds for operating them under wireless control.) From a temporary airdrome on Hatteras, conveniently close to the scene of action, the twelve killers will go out to attack their victims. One will be sunk with 1,100-pound bombs, the other with 2,000-pound bombs. The mysterious weapon, the new 4,000-pound bomb will not-contrary to first reports-be used at this time. The attackers will...
...Versailles; Germany's capacity to pay, fixed by an international commission of financial experts (as suggested in U. S. Secretary of State Hughes' New Haven speech), would be liable to revision at the hands of the Reparations Commission; Germany must agree to some form of " international control over the German financial administration" in order to give tangible effect to her guarantees. Finally, the note is considered to be a " virtual notification " to the German Government that passive resistance must cease and acts of sabotage and violence be disavowed...
However, the Little Entente demanded, in return for this concession, certain guarantees on the Hungarian side, including the discontinuance of Hungarian irredentist propaganda in the three countries and representation of the Little Entente upon the Control Commission, which will see that the loan is applied to curing Hungary's financial difficulties...
This last stipulation is repugnant to the Hungarian people and may cause the fall of the Hungarian Cabinet. The Hungarian representatives at Sinaia fought it, being willing to submit to English or Italian control, but not to control by their sworn enemies. However, Count Bethlen, Hungary's Premier, declared that...
Hungary's chief need was foreign capital, if only for the movement of crops. Economic conditions in Hungary are good, but capital is of vital importance. No foreign power will lend without control; the Little Entente is in a position to block all loans, unless it is given control; the Hungarians don't want Little Entente control, they want money. The dilemma is unescapable. Only the gradual weakening of the Little Entente, prophesied at Budapest, can afford the Magyars consolation...