Word: discordances
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...volume bound in yellow paper was the source of august discord. Already 100,000 copies have been sold, for the volume is the new Alternative Prayer Book of the Church of England (TIME, Feb. 21), recently approved by the Church Assembly, and submitted to the House of Lords last week. So important loomed this revised manual of prayer, that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in greater numbers than at any time since the World War. The four benches assigned to bishops towered with stiff regalia. Then up rose, to put the motion, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall...
...subject of disarmament, equal discord was manifested. Some nations wanted complete worldwide disarmament, others partial disarmament. Some wanted League control, others did not. And the matter was finally disposed of so diplomatically and in such innocuous terms that the resolution was not thought worth publishing...
...August von Mack-ensen, 78, reviewed at Potsdam, Germany, veterans of German wars with Denmark, Austria and France (men 77 to 93 years old), dined with them, read to them a telegram from their onetime Emperor Wilhelm II: "The glorious fruits of these wars are now unhappily destroyed by discord, and must be fought for again. Gott mit uns, WILHELM...
...atmosphere tense with Anglo-U. S. suspicion and discord characterized the sessions at Geneva last week of the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
When representatives of the five Powers and six smaller nations comprising the Council of the League of Nations* assembled at Geneva last week for their regular quarterly meeting, they found that a document pregnant with international discord had been filed with the League by order of President-Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania...