Word: discordant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...successfully dull and amicable was the remainder of the public session, that the Conference was able to adjourn into committees, late in the week, without perceptible discord...
...Great Britain he indicated progressively smaller degrees of willingness to make reparation for the damage they alleged. Soon statesmen of the five Powers were explaining to their publics that Mr. Chen's trick is an old one which has often succeeded in sowing jealousy and discord among Allies...
...conference, two forums were held. The first, entitled "Relations Between Mexico and the United States" was led by A. E. de Los Monteros. In the second, Miss Rhoda McCullock, of the national Y. M. C. A. propounded the theory that life is primarily for human enjoyment with spasms of discord and disease, and H.-Pitt Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary spoke of human life as a service to mankind. He showed how an emergence of the two theories of self statisfaction and service makes the contented...