Word: accordant
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...They desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned...
...everywhere outside the Axis countries the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting got a press that must have delighted the authors of the Eight Points. Editorialists greeted the lofty peace aims of the Points with loftily expressed praise and hope. Many Latin American newspapers made it plain that they were in hearty accord with Good Neighbor Roosevelt. The Argentine press was almost as warm toward the Points as Good Neighbor Eleanor Roosevelt herself. (Wrote she in My Day: "We all listened breathlessly. . . . One felt it was an important moment in the history of world progress...
...were the first moves of the game. Vichy's loudspeakers rumbled out the most abject communiqué they had ever uttered. It began: "The Japanese Government Information Office published this morning the following declaration . . .", went on for seven paragraphs of pretty indirections. Japan and Vichy were in complete accord, had decided to "cooperate" in the "defense" of Indo-China...
...unwritten agreement between the Holy See and Dictator Franco, was revealed last week by a semi-official Vatican news agency. The Vatican will '"suggest" three names for any episcopal vacancy-there are now 18-and Dictator Franco will select one, pass it back to the Holy Father. "This accord," said the agency, "guarantees to the Holy See freedom of choice...
...Role of the Church: "It is . . . the indisputable competence of the Church ... to decide whether the bases of a given social system are in accord with the unchangeable order...