Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civilized world has been watching with more than ordinary interest the current proceedings of the League of Nations to outlaw aggressive warfare. Never has the prospect of constructive work to this end appeared so favorable as now. The world is war weary, as it was at the close of the Napoleonic wars; but, thanks to the recent London conference, the allies of today present a united front and a harmony of purpose that were lacking in the peace attempts of a century ago. Except in the case of Russia, the nations of today are favored in their efforts by comparative...
...proposed protocol of arbitration and security. At bottom their contention centers around the immigration question. Japan refuses to bind it self to accept a possible decision by the World Court that immigration is exclusively within another country's domestic jurisidiction. The clause to which she objects would outlaw a disputant country refusing to accept such decision. M. Adachi, speaking for Japan, charged the League with "proclaiming a state criminal without offering any solution to the difficulty". The solution, however, is not only offered, but is put in the most concrete form possible. It is simply a positive and final verdict...
...council--Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. Italy is reported likely to support Japan, since she, too, is interested in an outlet for her emigrants. Unless one of these two countries is brought to reason, the present peace will go the way of all previous attempts to outlaw...
...feudal England every man had a master?peasant, noble and monarch; the masterless man was almost an outlaw and found every man's hand against...
...outlaw may appeal against his sentence. Meanwhile the case is considered by the white population as indicative of their lowered prestige...