Word: factions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Expressed opinion on the League has hitherto been almost equally divided into two parts. One faction reveres the League Covenant as the Word of God revealed to Mr. Wilson; the other extreme regards the whole thing as an iniquitous, damnable "foreign entanglement." Obviously, with such intolerance, nothing can be accomplished. The general public lies between these antipodes, but the general public is practically inarticulate. This referendum therefore offers the first opportunity for the public to decide on the League per se; always providing that the public reads and digests the Plan itself, and does not swallow the misleading summary kindly...
Representatives of the Mexican rebel private faction, as a counter move, undertook the purchase of arms for the rebel forces. As a result, President Coolidge declared an embargo on arms and munitions of war for shipment to Mexico except such shipments as the U. S. Government may approve for shipment to the recognized Government of Mexico...
That the American government should sell some of its surplus ordnance to that authority in Mexico who alone for some time has brought stability, progressive reforms, and international recognition to a neighboring country where every second child seems born a revolutionist seems beyond question. The de la Huerta faction, as far as it knows its own purpose and reveals it, seems to aim at a lawless control by the military and privileged classes. While indiscriminate aid to a foreign power is admittedly unwise, aid to the Obregon government is judiciously extended. Criticism on openly pacifistic grounds is perhaps excusable...
Chicago sighed at the thought of losing the Republican Convention which it has had once in four years for the last 20. Cleveland brightened at the news, for she has had but one other Convention, that of a faction of the Republican Party which nominated John Cochran to run against Abraham Lincoln...
...Methodist Bishops had officially offered support to the Living Church, or reorganized Russian Church, they would have directly opposed the attitude taken by the American Protestant Episcopal churches. The Episcopalians have favored that faction of the Russian Orthodox Church which upheld Patriarch Tikhon whom the other faction, or Living Church, unfrocked...