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Foreign currencies such as Indian rupees, Spanish and Mexican 8 reales, and Chinese cash coins circulated.
Foreign coins were common in the early years of the New South Wales colony but much of this coin left the colony as a result of trade with visiting merchant ships.
Foreign banks were established, and large silver coins from all over the world began arriving to pay for tea, silk, and Chinese porcelain to be shipped abroad.
Foreign currencies were used as a medium of exchange, along with Saudi silver coins.
Foreign coinsincluding British, Dutch, Indian and Portuguese-were common in the early years, but much of this coin left the colony by way of trade with visiting merchant ships.

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The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
The reports of President Nasser's pledges which Hammarskjold was relaying from Cairo to Washington became increasingly incomprehensible to other diplomats, including the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir.
Administration officials met with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and others to press for an economically self-sufficient Germany, including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants, goods and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets.
Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ( Taiwan ) and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
CND's growing support in the 1980s provoked opposition from several sources, including Peace Through Nato, the British Atlantic Committee ( which received government funding ), Women and Families for Defence ( set up by conservative journalist Lady Olga Maitland to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp ), the Conservative Party's Campaign for Defence and Multilateral Disarmament, the Coalition for Peace through Security, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, and The 61, a private sector intelligence agency.
" In addition, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs states as some of its jurisdictional goals: " export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware ; measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safeguard American business abroad ; international commodity agreements ; international education ; and protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation.
In addition to the courses offered in Hanover, Dartmouth offers 57 different off-campus programs, including Foreign Study Programs, Language Study Abroad programs, and Exchange Programs.
The Foreign Legion was primarily used, as part of the Armée d ' Afrique, to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the 19th century, but it also fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars.
In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.
Many young foreigners, including Americans like Fred Zinn, volunteered for the Foreign Legion when the war broke out in 1914.
Nevertheless, the old and the new men of the Foreign Legion fought and died in vicious battles on the Western front, including Belloy-en-Santerre during the Battle of the Somme, where Seeger, after being mortally wounded by machine-gun fire, cheered on the rest of his advancing battalion.
Foreign powers, including France and Sweden, intervened in the conflict and strengthened those fighting Imperial power, but also seized considerable territory for themselves.
A range of economic reforms were introduced in the late 1980s including a managed devaluation of the rupiah to improve export competitiveness, and de-regulation of the financial sector, Foreign investment flowed into Indonesia, particularly into the rapidly developing export-oriented manufacturing sector, and from 1989 to 1997, the Indonesian economy grew by an average of over 7 %.
For his one-day Italian trip, Ribbentrop was accompanied by a staff of thirty-five, including a gymnastics coach, a masseur, a doctor, two hairdressers, plus various legal and economic experts from the Foreign Office.
A 1955 film version of Ordet was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion in the 1955 Venice Film Festival and the 1956 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
After Marshall's appointment in January 1947, administration officials met with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and others to press for an economically self-sufficient Germany, including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants, goods and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets in their occupied zone.
He was active in protests against Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary who maintained restrictions on immigration of Jews ( including Nazi concentration camp survivors ) to Palestine after the end of the Second World War.
In October 2005 the Foreign ministers of both countries met to discuss cooperation on a variety of issues including political, economic, military, educational, and cultural.
He was also appointed Imperial Chancellor ( Reichskanzler ) of the German Empire, but retained his Prussian offices ( including those of Minister-President and Foreign Minister ).
This head-of-state immunity, recognized by the United States, must be distinguished from that envisaged under the United States ' Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, which, while recognizing the basic immunity of foreign governments from being sued in American courts, lays down nine exceptions, including commercial activity and actions in the United States by agents or employees of the foreign governments.
Foreign election observers, including the Catholic Church and Jimmy Carter certified the electoral victory of Endara despite widespread attempts at fraud by the regime.
He met with Soviet representatives including Foreign Minister Georgi Chicherin, who rejected any kind of religious education, the ordination of priests and bishops, but offered agreements without the points vital to the Vatican.
Relevant documents have also been released by the Argentine government and the British Foreign Office and other information sources have become available, including the diary of Bishop Hurley.

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* Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations: list of bilateral treaties with Angola ( in Spanish only )
President Obiang made an official visit to Madrid in March 2001, and senior Spanish Foreign Ministry officials visited Malabo during 2001 as well.
To support Isabella's claim to the Spanish throne against her uncle, the French government decided to send the Foreign Legion to Spain.
In 1919, the government of Spain raised the Spanish Foreign Legion and modeled it after the French Foreign Legion.
* 1966-In response, the Spanish Foreign Office Minister Fernando Castiella, published and presented to the Spanish Courts the " Spanish Red Book " ( named so because of its cover ; its reference is " Negociaciones sobre Gibraltar.
* 1968 A group of six Gibraltarian lawyers and businessmen, calling themselves the palomos or ' doves ', advocated a political settlement with Spain in a letter published in the Gibraltar Chronicle, and met with Spanish Foreign Office officials ( a meeting was even held with the Spanish
Julio Álvarez del Vayo, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, appealed to the League in September 1936 for arms to defend Spain's territorial integrity and political independence.
* Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Relations about the relation with Paraguay ( in Spanish only )
It has a common programme for all pupils, and covers all the classical subjects ( Italian language and literature, History, Geography, Mathematics, Natural sciences, English language, a second Foreign Language-usually French, German or Spanish, Technology, Arts, Music, and Physical Education ).
* Department of Foreign Languages ( Arabic, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, German and single courses in Chinese ( IF )
More independent but clearly to the left of the political spectrum are the Centro de Investigaciones de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo ( CIDOB ) founded in 1973 ; and the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior ( FRIDE ) established in 1999 by Diego Hidalgo and main driving force behind projects such as the Club de Madrid, a group of democratic former heads of state and government, or the Foreign Policy Spanish Edition.
* Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations: list of bilateral treaties with Portugal ( in Spanish only )
* Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations: list of bilateral treaties with Algeria ( in Spanish only )
Via an old girlfriend, Conchita Montenegro, Howard had contacts with Ricardo Giménez-Arnau, a young diplomat in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The 1840 Catalogue of the Foreign Library offered several hundred titles in German, French, Spanish, Italian and English languages, including:
In addition to Sven, they include Alfred Kalb, " Legionnaire " ( ex-member of French Foreign Legion ); Wolfgang Creutzfeldt, a giant of a man ironically named Tiny ( variously Little John in some of the books ); barracks fixer and shrewd thief Joseph Porta ; older sergeant Willie Beier, " Old Un " or " Old Man "; Julius Heide, an ex-Waffen SS officer and Nazi fanatic, Barcelona Blom, a veteran of both sides of the Spanish Civil War, Gregor Martin, who was a removals man before the war, Chief Mechanic Wolf, and Staff Sergeant Hoffman, a typical German NCO of the period.
* Spanish Legion, a quasi-independent unit of the Spanish Army originally intended as an equivalent to the French Foreign Legion
Benedetti had been instructed by his superior, Foreign Minister Agénor, the Duc de Gramont, to present the French demand that the king should guarantee that he would never again permit the candidacy of a Hohenzollern prince to the Spanish throne.
When war broke out in 1775, the Comte de Vergennes, then the Foreign Minister, outlined a series of proposals that led to secret French and also Spanish support of the rebel movement, and some preparations for the possibility of war, including expansion of their navies.

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