Word: proclaims
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...flooded their Congressmen with telegrams when the World Court was under discussion, they would have helped to establish the prestige of an organization which is sincerely desirous of achieving peace. But apparently their next action in the field will be a year from today when they will again proclaim peace...
What to do? Rise and proclaim this scandal to the room at large? Or wait and organize? Reason tottered! Was it imagination or was there indeed a look of furtive guilt on the faces of those wicked men behind the desk? "You dastards!" hissed the Vagabond (but not very loud) as he glided from the room...
...eyed French President Albert Lebrun the Grand Cross of Austrian Merit and be pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since devout Catholic Schuschnigg is a passionate Monarchist he explained to the bored, irreligious French over & over just how wonderful it would be to proclaim deep-dimpled, wavy-haired Habsburg Archduke Otto as His Apostolic Majesty in Vienna...
...days later suggestions that His Majesty proclaim an amnesty in celebration of his Silver Jubilee this spring were icily rebuffed from the Government Bench by Scottish Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour, not in the least disconcerted by Laborite McGovern's bluster. "Regardless of what other countries might do in similar circumstances," said Sir John, "Britain must adopt her own custom...
...Kuomintang and made peace with the Western powers. Two governments existed in China after that-the Nationalist of Nanking, dedicated to making China a Middle-Class country, and the so-called Communist government at Hankow, where Borodin and Madame Sun Yat-sen stood in the wings, hoping to "proclaim the Soviet," but never getting a chance. Sheean saw Borodin daily, was impressed by the man's philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless unless related to other events in the past and future. Friendship with Borodin, and with...