Word: moratorium
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Budget Slash. At the time of the German loan discussions in Paris three weeks ago, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson blurted out a statement that nearly caused his resignation from the Cabinet: "If Germany declared a moratorium, England will be forced also to declare a moratorium...
...Only about half the normal number of ducks will fly south this season. This is the third consecutive disastrous breeding year. Unless we have what might be called a moratorium on wildfowl shooting in this year of crisis I am afraid the ducks will go down into extinction...
...very limited number of the employed and unemployed citizens of these United States have any conception of the true inwardness of all this pother over reparations, moratorium...
Premier Blanquier represented the Opposition. Wily President Ibanez allowed him to assume office when the press of Chile's financial difficulties and secret political plottings threatened open revolution. One of Premier Blanquier's first moves was to declare a moratorium on Chile's foreign debt, from Chile's point of view a much needed step (TIME, July 27). Not satisfied with that, he restored freedom of the press. Emissaries carried to Dictator Ibanez news of still more drastic reforms in the offing. Last week, eight days after taking office, Premier Blanquier and his ministers announced that...
Expectation was that the current Government would continue the Chilean moratorium indefinitely...