Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Palestine. Discussion of the Mandates Commission's report revealed the fact that Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner for Palestine, while attempting to establish a Jewish National home, had neglected his paramount duty of developing the territory in the interests of the inhabitants. Cognizance of the fact was taken that Sir Herbert's duties as home-builder and Arab-protector were contradictory. Mr. Chamberlain warmly defended the High Commissioner; and, at the end, the report was referred to the Governments concerned. No League action was to be taken in connection with an Arab appeal against the civil administration of Palestine...
Issue. As in the U. S. and Britain, there is a scarcity of issues in the German campaign. At the last election the paramount issue was acceptance or rejection of the Experts' Plan. At this election the Plan is a fait accompli and, with the exception of the Freedom Party and the Communists, every shade of political accepts, willingly or unwillingly, the necessity of supporting it. Reports that the Nationalists are hostile to the Plan and seek to reject it are mainly propaganda...
...paramount issue this time, as it has been since the adoption of the Weimar Constitution in 1919, is whether or not the Monarch is to be restored The last election virtually decided this question as follows (only the eight large parties are quoted...
Socialism, according to Mr. Churchill, is "bluntly, nakedly and unavoidably" to be the paramount issue. His object is clear; it is to coalesce Conservatives and Liberals into an anti-Socialist Party, thus involving a return to the two-party system...
...Miwra, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Nagoya, Japan, was a visitor at the University yesterday, and was shown about the University by a CRIMSON reporter. He manifested a considerable interest in the various buildings, attributing to Harvard the paramount educational facilities of American universities...