Word: accordant
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...open to abuse, no one proposes to do away with civil and criminal law, or with the police forces which stand back of the law. Similarly, there is no reason for opposing the enforcement of international law by arms merely because such enforcement might not always be completely in accord with absolute justice...
...accord to remain in effect for ten years, then to be automatically renewed unless denounced...
...accord to be registered with the League of Nations...
...certain to result if France enters into a four-power attempt to revise European frontiers. . . . The idea of consultations between the four powers is good but it would be the worst of follies to substitute such an accord for the League of Nations...
...State Department in time to interrupt a friendly conference between outgoing Statesman Stimson and incoming Statesman Hull. Because the League asked a reply as soon as possible, the State Department obliged promptly with something which "did not sound as if it had been written by Mr. Stimson" according to officials of Japan's Foreign Office next day. Possibly written in part by Mr. Hull (though signed by Mr. Stimson) the State Department's cautious reply expressed "substantial accord" with the League's version of facts in Manchuria, "general accord'' with the conclusions of the Assembly...