Word: discordant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those charged with carrying the olive branch as messengers of that great American people, instead of bringing peace, seem to have carried out a program bringing conflict, discord and hatred among the two peoples which they were to join with the holy bonds of fraternity and love...
Last week the deliberations of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission,* chairmaned by General John J. Pershing, reached an acute stage of discord when the Chilean representative, Agustin Edwards, withdrew from the Commission, protesting that there had been needless delay in promulgating the terms of the plebiscite, and that after four months of marking time no date for it had actually been...
...Painlevé boldly stated that the factional discord now disrupting French politics (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) had prevented the bill from being anything more than a compromise measure, but added: "I have sought the advice of every party, and if in the end the bill was framed to meet the majority opinion, it was because the minority limited its advice to what the Government should not do. . . . The bill is not perfect. . . . It is a positive and creative measure. . . . Regardez-le bien! . . . Is it not the only really constructive attempt which has been made to deal with the present grave...
...Moscow last week there convened the Russian Church Congress. The sessions were disturbed by a continuance of the petty squabbling which has greatly aided Bolshevism in its attacks upon religion. The discord was the more notable because the reactionary adherants of the late Patriarch Tikhon abstained from any official participation in the congress; although they are thought to have gained steadily, of late, in national influence...
Standing at the banks of the Rhine for tht first time since the World War, President von Hindenburg "beheld with emotion this stream of our destiny" and cried: "It was ours as long as we were united; we lost it when discord divided us ... The Rhine must forever be an admonition to Germans to remain united...