Word: consent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about "The Entente of Leghorn." They hinted profoundly at a dark deal between Sir Austen and Il Duce to "counterbalance" the Franco-German "Entente of Thoiry" (see p. 14). Then Sir Austen climbed into a wagonlit, sped to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand, returned to London. By common consent the correspondents decided that all bets in favor of an "Entente of Leghorn" were...
...Idaho, Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who fired the loudest shot last week. Said he: "What the report at Geneva relative to our joining the Court means, stripped of all unnecessary verbiage is that the United States must change its reservations or consent to a construction of them which will emasculate or wholly destroy them. This brings the whole subject up anew for consideration...
Government must rest on the consent of the governed. This rule, of course, does not apply to aliens, Negroes, Filipinos or inhabitants of the District of Columbia. The consent of the governed is a synonym for the will of the majority, and the will of the majority is expressed by a plurality of those who take the trouble to vote. ...Taking our state and municipal elections, and averaging them for the country as a whole, the figures show that the will of the people is regularly expressed by less than twenty per cent of our adult citizenship, or about...
Meanwhile the only man in Athens who was not greatly flurried by events was old Paul Koundouriotis, recalled to the "Provisional Presidency" of the purely hypothetical "Hellenic Republic" by Dictator Kondylis. Admiral Koundouriotis, 71, has been by tacit consent the ornamental and gentlemanly figurehead of Greece since the departure of King George II from Athens (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923). For a time the hard-boiled adventurers who are exploiting Greece dubbed the Admiral, "Regent." Two years ago he was styled "Provisional President," and during the last few months of the Pangalos regime he was forced to resign and suffered...
...Text in full: V. The Court shall not render any advisory opinion, except publicly after due notice to all States adhering to the Court and to all interested States, and after public hearing or opportunity for hearing given to any State concerned; nor shall it without the consent of the United States entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest...