Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery. "I give general support to this bill," concluded the Bishop of Birmingham, "not because of concessions to a semipagan community, but because it seems to be legislation in accordance with the spirit of Christ...
...Senate seemed more than ready to vote to moderates like Chautemps & Bonnet full powers to deal-with the French crisis which they had been unwilling to give to radicals like Blum & Auriol, but it was an exciting question last week whether the Chamber, which had twice supported Blum & Auriol on this issue, would now support Chautemps & Bonnet...
...complex intrigue behind the scenes, while sergeants-at-arms were struggling on the Chamber stage with irate but inconsequential legislators, the efforts of the Communists to get something Moscow really wanted in return for their support penetrated via new French Premier Chau-temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must...
...make this change will take time and require another election in about six months. Moreover, lacking a clear majority, Mr. de Valera will have to make concessions to the Labor Party to secure its support. Nothing seemed likely to be done for the present about the most ominous feature of the new Constitution: it purports to be the Constitution not of the Irish Free State alone but of all Ireland, including the six counties of Ulster or Northern Ireland which are now part of the United Kingdom. To hotheads who want "Dev" at once to take drastic action...
...third of the population of the six counties already are anxious to join with us and if you can get another one-sixth of the whole population of the six counties to support the idea of unity of Ireland, then you will have a majority for the unity of Ireland. When we have got that majority the problem of the unity of the country will be solved. . . . There has been no question of force in regard to the six counties. We recognize it would be a distasteful task and one which probably would not succeed and which ultimately...