Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several years all factions in Congress have been strongly urging another disarmament conference. Naturally the President would have made haste to accept the present invitation if it had not been that this invitation was issued by the League of Nations. To many members of Congress the name of the League of Nations is still anathema?to Borah, to Hiram W. Johnson, to Moses?but in general the "irreconcilables" none the less favor disarmament...
...basis of this speech, the M.P.'s who remained in the House voted 239 to 4 to accept the main outlines of the League Council's settlement. Next day Mr. Baldwin exchanged a few courteous generalities with Ferid Bey, Turkish Ambassador at London, and critics opined that the chances for peace in Irak were brighter...
...Imperator et Rex, was pleased to accept the responsibilities of authorship for an address which read in part as follows...
When Signer Scialoja, Acting President of the Council, informed Munir Bey that "unanimous" was to be understood as "unanimous except for the votes of either Britain or Turkey, the interested par-ties," the Turks walked out, declaring that they had no authority from Angora to accept such a vote. This action amounted to flouting the League of Nations and the World Court, the latter having ruled that under the Treaty of Lausanne the Council was competent to adjudicate the dispute (TIME...
...Will Russia accept the invitation of the Council of the League of Nations to participate in the Special Disarmament Committee (TIME, Dec. 21) which is to be called in February to prepare for an International League Disarmament Conference...