Word: neutralities
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...international bank makes the problem of reparations a really international one; the only criticism in my mind is, that the location of the bank in Germany instead of in a neutral country would have advanced its aims before actual operations were commenced...
...Bank, and no doubt the bankers assembled at Baden took care to say just that. But the reasons for locating the Bank in Switzerland are clear, and it is difficult to see how the balance could be overweighted except in favor of some other country which holds the same neutral position as Switzerland, and at the same time boasts an age-old reputation as a European banking center...
...subject of the debate tonight is Resolved, that as part of its disarmament program the United States should promise to cooperate with other nations in protecting a neutral nation unjustly attacked. The four speakers, accompanied by J. S. Jennison '30, manager, and the coach, will make the trip to Newark. The debate, following as it does the recent visit of Ramsay MacDonald, has aroused a great deal of interest...
...With neutral shipping at a Wartime premium, Denmark's Plum created Det Danske Transatlantiske Dampskibs-Sels-kab (Danish Transatlantic Steamship Corp.). Part of the huge profits he used after the Soviet Revolution to finance the anti-Bolshevist campaigns of "White Russian" General Yudenitch and Admiral Kolchak. Their failures cost him dear. In 1924 his Trans-Atlantic Corp. crashed for a stupendous loss to shareholders in which the Danish Landmansbank alone dropped 200,000,000 kroner ($53,600,000). Incensed, the Danish Government started to probe Plum...
...Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...