Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden cracking the whip, Geneva statesmen rushed onto paper a veritable literature of proposed sanctions and a wealth of erudite interpretations of the Covenant. These boiled down to the unprecedented conclusion, solemnly voiced in various ways, that no treaty the terms of which are in conflict with the Covenant can be regarded by League States as valid against...
...Samuel Hoare's speech to the House of Commons should allay all doubts as to the eventual solution of the East African crisis. In announcing that under no conditions will Britain use military force against Italian aggression, the Foreign Secretary has laid the ghost of a general European conflict and at the same time demonstrated that the cynical attitude long prevalent at Geneva can eventually overcome even the staunchest souls...
...acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between two imperialisms in Africa-British Imperialism and Italian Imperialism. Workers, beware! Sanctions may develop into war and a conflict between imperialisms is not worth the life of a single worker...
...throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently intelligent to win the respect of such later students as Havelock Ellis and Bernard Shaw. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes neverthe-less won enthusiastic followers, particularly among women. A period of acute economic distress made a profound influence...
...thing is certain. Whether Anglo-Italo conflict breaks out within the next week, whether the present state of snarling drags on, or whether peace is effected within the near future, the British are going to start a program of intense naval building. Their lead will probably be followed by the Germans who are allowed, under this summer's treaty, 35 per cent of the total British strength. When this race starts it will be but a stone's throw to an international situation akin to that existent in Europe...