Word: accredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course all this is just Irish tosh, but the Queen-Empress and her advisers have apparently thought it unwise to overrule President Cosgrave openly. They were faced with a nasty dilemma when occasion arose for the Crown Council to accredit Mr. Michael MacWhite as Irish Free State Minister to the U.S. (TIME, March 25). But they found a weasel way out. Since the Irish were determined to honor none but Royal signatures, the necessary papers were signed by the Duke of York, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales only...
...General Hertzog is by far the most secessionist of all the Dominion Prime Ministers; and at the last Dominion Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 to Dec. 6, 1926) it was his bite which finally nipped the British Commonwealth into formal recognition that: 1) The Dominions are nations, with rights to accredit diplomats to non-British countries; 2) Great Britain is on a plane of "equality under the Crown" with the Dominions; 3) Great Britain, while continuing to administer the colonies and the foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions, and not with her onetime...
...wish to state my disapproval of the aspersions you cast upon the life-principles of "George Sherwood Eddy, famed preacher," in TIME, Feb. 23. In the same breath with which you accredit Mr. Eddy with having "in almost every land exhorted for peace, brotherhood," you fling at him the baleful charge: "He bullies men's consciences, he stirs their emotions." Is your method of procedure in matters concerning religion constructive or destructive? If the latter, as these words seem to imply, you would in my opinion, do well to omit the column on RELIGION from your publication...
...have the honor to place in your hands, Most Excellent Sir, the autographed letters of the Most Excellent, the President of the Republic of Ecuador, which bring to an end the diplomatic mission entrusted to my distinguished predecessor, the Most Excellent Senor Doctor Don Rafael H. Elizalde, and which accredit me in the high capacity of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the Government of Your Excellency...
...Olaya said that he was authorized by his government to state officially to the Panaman Minister that the Republic of Colombia recognizes Panama as an independent nation and that his Government would be pleased to receive the duly accredited agent whom the Republic of Panama would despatch. . . . He added that the Government of Colombia would also be pleased to accredit a Minister to the Republic of Panama...