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...High-Church. On these questions the Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church were lined up, more sharply demarcated than they had been in 50 years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction which backed Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been the least picturesque and effective of our Presiding Bishops. . . .His cope, mitre...
...bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...America disliked the Chamberlain method because it had the appearance of England and France presenting her with a fait accompli. When the present conference opened, exactly the same suspicion oppressed France. The result has been quite fatal. The conference has been a tragedy of mismanagement...
Inasmuch as the author pessimistically presents his charge as a fiat accompli, it seems imperative to rise up and remind him that he is dangerously on the verge of offending certain Boston sport writers who pride themselves on having classified Harvard football long ago. Their diagnosis has boldly proclaimed that there are altogether too many "gentlemanly" gentlemen in Harvard football for its own good. Such a clash of reliable judgements naturally brings the question to an impasse...
Notably the district of Vilna, birthplace of Marshal Pilsudski, changed hands between Lithuania and Poland no less than five times in the year 1920. Eventually Vilna was seized with great firmness by the Polish General Zeligovski (Oct. 9, 1920), and this fait accompli was recognized by the Council of Ambassadors (TIME, March 31, 1923). Since 1920, however, both countries have remained in a nominal "state of war," and quarrels on every possible minor issue have been incessant...