Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty. His diplomatic antagonist, Ismet, proved tenacious, resourceful, adroit. The Turkish National Assembly refused to ratify. On April 23, 1923, the Conference reassembled. After four long months of wrangling, Ismet forced the plenipotentiaries, Greeks, French, Italian and British, to yield to his stubborn and irreducible demands. The final draft was signed in August, and did little but establish peace, regulate the number of foreign troops in Turkey and Turkish frontiers...
...week, by a colossal revival of monarchist and nationalist propaganda. Stimulus was given by Foreign Minister Stresemann's speech to the Hanover Convention of the National People's Party. He came out flatfooted, for a monarchy, attacked the Republican Constitution of the Reich, which he helped to draft at the Weimar Constitutional Convention in February...
Other proposals sheared away the powers that the draft gave Kemal. It was proposed that the President should serve for seven years, and could be any Turk eligible for the office of Deputy. The Assembly ruled that the President must be a Deputy chosen by the Deputies, and that his term of office must equal that of the Assembly's mandate. Veto power is restricted. Normally all bills must be promulgated by the President within ten days. Organic statutes and budget laws may be returned by the President, with reasons attached. If voted a second time they must...
...State and her prerogatives forbids them to disobey her decrees. The very fact of his living in an organization such as the State makes, a man liable to her laws. Though these laws be against his conscience, he must obey them as he would his parents. The Draft Law was against the conscience of many people, but it is as much a law of the land as the most fundamental provision in our Constitution...
From Moscow it was announced that the celestial republic of China had resumed full diplomatic relations with the Soviet. The draft of the recognition agreement was prepared in Peking by C. T. Wang, Chinese plenipotentiary, and M. Karakhan, Soviet envoy. The outstanding questions to be settled are the status of the Chinese Eastern Railway, over whose right of way Russia is willing to waive sovereignty but desires to share in the road's management, and the Russo-Asiatic Bank, the institution which, under an agreement made in 1920, represents Russia's interest in the railway. A proposal...