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Word: reservationist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate he was a mild reservationist on the League of Nations question and in favor of Mr. Harding's World Court proposal. He knew President Harding intimately, in fact, was a member of the "golf cabinet." Mr. Kellogg held a post in the Foreign Relations Committee, and is an expert on international law. After he became a lame duck, he declared that he was " not a candidate for any appointment, didn't want any job and would not accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The President's Choice | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...treaty plank as it now stands is a disappointment. Its strategic value may be great, but even greater would have been the advantages of a "mild reservationist" stand which would have given the opposing party little foothold from which to raise the League as a campaign issue. It would seem that Elihu Root has said nothing at all as only that keen legal mind could have said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TREATY PLANK | 6/11/1920 | See Source »

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