Word: cushendun
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Security Commission adjourned until February, after mapping an agenda for itself which contemplates a study of how Security may be achieved by a network of "regional pacts," such as the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925). The Disarmament Commission also adjourned, but not until the British Delegate, Lord Cushendun, had made a significant pronouncement. He, a sturdy Ulster patriot, declared: "The empire has reduced our army and navy, voluntarily, to the lowest possible level consistent with safety. ... We have stripped off our clothes and have nothing else to take...