Word: onus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 8, FRANCE...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has, apparently, as Chairman of the World War Debt Commission, taken over the onus of the Commission's work. For the moment it is not so great as it will be later. Last week's developments...
Surprise in Belgium was quickly clouded by well-founded pessimism. Such a Cabinet would never command support from Parliament. Premier Poullet was wary. He did not lead his Cabinet into the Chamber of Deputies, as did his predecessors, and bluntly demand a vote of confidence. Instead, he put the onus of responsibility on the Catholic Party by asking its representatives in the Senate and Chamber if they were prepared to support his Government.* The Catholic Senators voted no confidence, 36 to 22. The Catholic Deputies voted no confidence...
...Onus. Who was responsible for calling an election that is generally unpopular with the public? The Laborites declared that it was the Liberals, who, by joining the Conservatives, had deliberately turned them out of office on a trivial issue. The Liberals contend that the Labor Government was to blame, because it refused to "face an impartial inquiry into the circumstances which led to the withdrawal of the prosecution" against Editor Campbell. The Conservatives most heartily concurred with the Liberal contention. The Times of London said...
...vote for the amendments (which have no chance of being carried), thereby placing the responsibility for the bill entirely on the shoulders of the Government. The bill is then to be sent back to the House of Lords in its original form; but their lordships, satisfied that the onus of responsibility is not shared by Conservatives, will pass the bill, which will then become law after the Royal Assent has been obtained. That the Irish crisis will, however, be intensified by the passage of the Boundary Amendment Act was the opinion of competent observers...