Word: submits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the honor to inform you that, after due deliberation, His Majesty's Government find themselves unable to recommend the treaties in question to the consideration of Parliament or to submit them to the King for his Majesty's ratification...
Great Britain has refused to submit her Egyptian troubles to the League of Nations. Indeed, the abruptness and vigor of the reprisals in Egypt made it extremely doubtful whether the Baldwin ministry ever gave a thought to the possibilities of a League settlement. Paradoxical as this attitude may seem upon the part of a nation that has long upheld the League, it is not entirely indefensible. The United States, with its Philippines, can readily appreciate the strength of the British assertion that the whole affair is purely a domestic one. Yet the quasi-independent status of Egypt might, without insult...
...Council also settled amicably the dispute between Turkey and Greece over the exchange of population (TIME, Sept. 22). The Mixed Commission, which controls the exchange of population between the two Nations, was asked to meet; and both Powers agreed to recognize and submit to its authority to deal with the question. The Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague is to settle any future disagreements...
...Soviet Russia," he scoffed, "could never agree with the fundamental aim of the League to consolidate the present status of State borders; and we would never permit the League to compel us to submit to arbitration the vital interests of the Soviet Union, as there cannot exist impartial arbitration between the Soviet economic system and capitalistic society...
...Progressives are not lacking in common sense; they are quite as intelligent as the reactionaries. In fact, the presumption of intelligence is on their side, because a man must be informed before he can protest against an existing wrong and propose a remedy.. Anyone can submit to injustice without having any information on the subject at all; in fact, the less information he has, the less liable he is to protest...