Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial system constitutes a serious objection to the proposal. These students, although some are unquestionably a fatiguing bore to tutors, benefit occasionally more than any others from contact with men who are trying to stimulate their intellectual interests. To deny them so valuable an influence would be to disregard one of the fundamental purpose of the tutorial system...
...Disregard Agreements...
Secretary Stimson's statement, he says, seems to mean that if the present trouble should end by an agreement whereby China should cede to Japan any rights in Manchuria, the United States, Russia or any other signatory would have a right under the Pact to disregard them, if in its opinion they were acquired by other than pacific means. If this means that a signatory may intervene when the cession is made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress...
...Porto Rico would be without international recognition. But for the future, unless wars are to cease entirely or are to be followed by no changes of territory, the Pact of Paris, with an interpretation whereby the signatories are under no obligation to prevent war, yet are at liberty to disregard its results, might well create more causes of strife than it would allay. It would signify that any nation could repudiate its treaties, and disregard those made by others, on the ground of duress...
...forceful alteration of unsatisfactory treaties, such a policy would lead to lengthy controversies about rights, protracted friction between disputing powers, and possible hostilities. Furthermore, universally accepted it would provide a highly undesirable loophole of indefinite claims through which an unscrupulous nation might, on convenient occasions, "repudiate its treaties and disregard those of others on the ground of duress...