Word: covenanter
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He allowed women to join in his cause, denounced the Constitution and those who took oath to support it-because it supported slavery. He opposed all government as based on force and bloodshed and became an advocate of nonresistance. The Constitution, he declared, was "a covenant with Death and an...
He said there was no desire on the part of His Majesty's Government to terminate the Anglo-Egyptian condominium of the Sudan. He denied that there was anything in the Covenant of the League which either required or suggested that Britain should refer the matter to that body...
Since the League covenant came into force, His Majesty's Government have consistently taken the view that neither it nor any conventions concluded under the auspices of the League are intended to govern the relations inter se of the various parts of the British Commonweath.
1) Discussion of the Protocol to the Covenant of the League (TIME, Oct. 13).
"We will not stand for separate alliances. There is only one thing for which we are prepared to stand and that is the Covenant of the League of Nations."