Word: parleyed
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Deliberations by the Assembly were principally confined to stereotyped laudations of the Kellogg Treaty by all hands, while everyone was preoccupied with the Müller-Briand parley over Rhineland Evacuation. Outstanding was the news that Spain, who, as everyone knows, has not always been too amicable to the League, had been elected to fill one of three nonpermanent vacancies in the council. Venezuela and Persia were elected simultaneously after the assembly refused to re-elect China...
...submarine issue and a similar but very technical disagreement over the "categories" in which naval limitation would be practicable has hamstrung every session of the League Disarmament Committee, and resulted in the abstention of both France and Italy from the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27, 1927). Incidentally the Coolidge session adjourned in disagreement when the U, S. and Great Britain became hopelessly deadlocked over the issue of "categories...
...President Coolidge made known that he regards with favor the idea of a polyglot conference ("world gathering," "international parley," "pact ceremony," "peace rally") at Paris, before long, to sign the multilateral Kellogg treaty renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
Officials close to the Secretary of State for India said guardedly, in London, that the present activities of Colonel Lawrence began last April. They recalled that Amir Amanullah, Khan of Afghanistan, has invited to a Pan-Asiatic Parley at Kabul, Afghanistan, next November, delegates from the nationalist parties of India and Egypt, and representatives of the nationalist governments of Persia and Turkey, together with emissaries from all the Sultans, Imams and potent Sheiks* of Arabia...
...long line of martyrs waiting at the gate comes the Reverend Dr. Fiske of Omaha, Nebraska, and affixes himself to the train without further parley. Mr. Fiske has, like much of the existing world, written a book. The book's title is "Voices of Gold". With the pride of a father in his first-born, and a pardonable wish to instill variety, or even bite, into the Sunday evening service, he has recently filled in the space between the offering and the third hymn with readings from his book...