Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What seemed to have happened was that the Soviet and Chinese ambassadors to Germany had at last come to an understanding after nearly a month of secret parleys (TIME, Aug. 5). In Berlin, both diplomats kept absolutely mum, and at Nanking the Chinese Nationalist Government would neither affirm nor deny that peace had been patched up. In Moscow, however, the Soviet Government's official news organs Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News) announced categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned...
Ulen, coach of the Orange and Black mermen since 1923, today declined to either deny or affirm this rumor, now generally accepted as true in Syracuse University circles...
There is no special significance in the refusal of the University authorities to affirm or deny the bulletin of a morning newspaper that Henry Lee Shattuck has been chosen Treasurer of Harvard. Until the appointment of Charles Francis Adams as Secretary of the Navy has been confirmed by Mr. Hoover, Mr. Adams will not resign his post as Treasurer. Until he has resigned, there can be no election of a successor, and no official statement on the question...
When questioned last night about his plan for the dance, Vogel stated that he would have no committee chosen until the end of next week. He declined to affirm or deny the rumor that a petition for a Boston dance would be presented to the University authorities. He stated that all matters of importance would have to be discussed by the committee and declared that there could be no plans adopted until the committee has studied the various propositions...
...Treaty of Versailles (1918) declares that "the Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility ... of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies"; but the Locarno Pact (1925), refers to "the peoples upon whom fell the scourge of the war 1914-1918." Thus Germany has progressed officially, from the status of a culprit self-confessed and solely guilty, to that of membership in a community of pious sufferers. Needless to recall, the hypothesis of sole guilt is bindingly included in an article (No. 231) of the Versailles Treaty, while the quotation from...