Word: covenanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swarthmore's Frank Aydelotte: "We should begin now to study the defects of the covenant of the League of Nations and to devise plans for another and stronger association of the peoples of the world to take its place."
Stimson offered Britain U. S. collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese...
Holiest object in a synagogue is its Torah (scroll of the Jewish Law). The Torah, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament, is God's covenant with Moses and his people. The countless minute provisions of the Law, and the later commentaries which Jews say "put...
So wrote Woodrow Wilson's widow recently in the Satevepost, describing the Wilsons' first return from the Peace Conference in February 1919. In next week's installment, Widow Wilson relates how, when she saw her husband being crucified on his Treaty of Versailles and Covenant of the...
History. In 1919, the "secrecy" of their framing was the charge with which Senators Philander Knox and Henry Cabot Lodge I started the depopularizing of Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations Covenant before they reached the Senate. No charge could have been more unjust or...