Word: disclaimer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unofficial observers' have appeared at international conferences where America, if present at all, should have been present as an equal among equals. When, but yesterday, three Americans went to the Conference on Reparations, whose fruitful outcome all the world desires, Washington was prompt to disclaim all responsibility for their going though eager to take credit for whatever they might accomplish. We must face the humiliating fact that we have a government that does not dare to speak its mind beyond the three mile limit...
...Reservations. Two principal reservations were suggested: 1) that the U. S. "disclaim all responsibility" for the exercise by the Court of its right to give advisory opinions. (This reservation was included to avoid the moral effect of an advisory decision by the Court on such a question, for example, as whether we ought to exclude Japanese immigrants from the U. S.); 2) that in adhering to the Court the U. S. assumes no obligation inconsistent with its rights under the Monroe Doctrine...
...Unitarians disclaim any desire to "shake the fruit tree" so that some fruit may fall on their side of the theological fence. But they join with Conservatives in a plea that Liberals should be "honest with themselves", and should not "play with words...
...Confession of Faith does itself disclaim infallibility, saying "All synods, or councils, since the apostles' times . . . may err . . . and many have erred. . . . God alone is Lord of the conscience and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men ... so that to believe such doctrines is to betray true liberty of conscience...
...extinct; but now comes a persistent rumor that he is to return, groomed and fit, the "dark horse" of the next Presidential Derby in 1924. Who will ride him is not announced and the logical man for the job, Senator Borah of Idaho has done his best publicly to disclaim the honor...