Word: parleys
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...shall break up and derange every effort which Hitler makes to systematize and consolidate his subjugations. He will find no peace, no rest, no halting place, no parley...
Japan is sending its No. 1 churchman, Bishop Yoshimune Abe, and its No. 1 Christian, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, to a peace parley with U.S. church leaders at Riverside, Calif, next week. Its purpose as stated by the Japanese: "Prayer and to explore ways to preserve peace between Japan and the United States...
Head of the commission, which was set up by the Federal Council of Churches with the help of seven other interfaith agencies, is John Foster Dulles, world-renowned lawyer, grandson of a Secretary of State, son of a Presbyterian minister, veteran of almost every peace parley since the 1907 Hague Conference. No churchgoer himself, he never thought to blame the failure of all the peace conferences he attended on lack of Christianity until he set out to draft a practical set of principles on which a peace conference might succeed. To his surprise, he found them an echo of Christianity...
...people. I think he's up against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt for a parley with Ambassador John G. Winant. That evening, pouch-eyed, gaunt, battered, he climbed out of a parlor car at Washington and went directly to the White House...
...rate, the Brenner parley was the prelude to Hitler's diplomatic-if not military-spring drive, and the Allies certainly did not like...