Sentences with phrase «peace conference»

It was not likely that he would remain for the formal Peace Conference with the enemy.

Then they would choose sides again and go at it until the next peace conference.

The Washington Post applauded the sequel, The Wilson Deception, set at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Her non-fiction Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War won the Duff Cooper Prize for outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics; the Hessell - Tiltman Prize for History; the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada.

♦ Throughout the late and unlamented Cold War, no religious organization so assiduously toed the Communist line as the Prague - based Christian Peace Conference.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration is the world's oldest institution for settling international disputes, established at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899.

Its nickname stems from the number of international peace conferences held there and some may say the venue was chosen for its transcontinental location, but I believe the tropical climate, coastal breezes and clear waters were the real attractions.

Regarding the Confederacy, I recently wrote a book on the last major initiative in 1861 to avert the Civil War — the Washington Peace Conference — where both sides extensively made their arguments.

One diplomatic source suggested to the Telegraph that the arms rhetoric had simply been part of a plan by Britain to encourage Damascus to take part in the forthcoming Syria peace conference in Geneva saying: «this was never about arming the rebels.

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Margaret Tutwiler informed us that when the President had told conservative Protestant broadcasters that the U.S. wanted unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial, he was expressing his emotions, not policy; that when Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet colleague Alexander Bessmertnykh said that the coalition would accept a cease - fire and would promise a regional peace conference, that was inoperative because it had not been checked.

Similarly, Martin shows in careful detail how Graham's later visit to the U.S.S.R., under the auspices of a Soviet - sponsored peace conference, was painstakingly negotiated through and around government officials in the U.S., including the State Department, which was opposed to Graham's participation out of reasonable fears that the Soviets would derive propaganda value from the visit.

In the last decades various organizations have grown up on this basis, such as the Universal Religious Alliance, International Religious Peace Conference, World Parliament of Religions, World Congress for Free Christianity and Religious Progress, Union of All Religions, World Congress of Faiths, and Fraternity of Religious Mankind, founded by Rudolf Otto.

We have to admit that Albania is small — due to the role played by the big powers during the London Peace Conference where its borders were decided.

Tony Blair has said that the onus is upon the Palestine Authority to reform before a full peace conference on progress in the region is held.

But just because this Central American country has been a pioneer in the so called eco-tourism industry for over 25 years, they seem to be ahead of the curve, and the talks from the Planet, People, Peace conference TreeHugger has been invited to cover have actually been quite good.A conclusion from the first day of the event, yesterday, was that the tourism industry seems to be maturing along with other segments of the «green» movement.

Some others, usually working under the title «Peace and Justice,» are said to be funded by the Eastern European Christian Peace Conference.

Margaret MacMillan's account of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 reveals what the war left in its wake.

The Peace That Almost Was focuses on a key effort in the attempt to avert a war: the Washington Peace Conference — «one of the most dignified assemblages of men ever gathered together in this country,» a major newspaper noted — that met in the weeks before Lincoln took office.

Denied representation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Albania was divided up between Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia, but Albanians fought back and Albania was admitted to the League of Nations in 1920.

A nation that fought four wars to gain control of the Valley of Aijalon does not intend to see this strategic land bargained away at some international peace conference.

Like the rest of us I am anxiously following the proceedings at the Peace Conference, this poignant spectacle of the two halves of Mankind wrangling incessantly over points of detail but making no fundamental contact because they approach everything from different angles.

That judgment may be too strong, but considerable respect was accorded Russell Chandran, previous principal of UTC and a longtime active member of the Christian Peace Conference, who delivered a vintage «radical social change» paper with characteristic vigor.

Fink was the rector of Humbolt University and an active leader in the Christian Peace Conference (which was closely tied to the U.S.S.R.) in the 1980s.

The shadow of 1940 will not be removed by the technical conclusion of military hostilities nor by the organization of a peace conference.

Tooley nonetheless judges that the peace conference was not a complete failure.

The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War mark tooley thomas nelson 2015, $ 24.99

It was only a little over a half century ago, in 1899, that the first Hague Peace Conference was held.

He served as the President of the Indian chapter of the Christian Peace Conference and as the Chairman of the World Student Christian Federation.

The diplomatic focus remains ensuring that the Russians and Americans are on the same page, something that John Kerry's efforts with arranging the Geneva Two peace conference have gone some way to progress but any US intervention may put in doubt.

A Trump campaign spokesman told me several hours later that Kislyak had also told Flynn that a Trump representative should attend a peace conference on Syria that would take place after the inauguration in Astana, Kazakhstan.

So they look to a Geneva 2 peace conference.

Erik Estrada and Donny and Ma (more...) V.I.P. is hired to protect a Norwegian diplomat during a peace conference, and Tasha (Molly Culver) discovers that she was secretly brainwashed to become an assassin and turns to her ex, the Owl (Thomas Kretschmann), for help.

V.I.P. is hired to protect a Norwegian diplomat during a peace conference, and Tasha (Molly Culver) discovers that she was secretly brainwashed to become an assassin and turns to her ex, the Owl (Thomas Kretschmann), for help.

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I'd wanted to write about this time period since writing about it for my master's thesis at Cambridge on the Paris Peace Conference and the League of Nations covenant.

Your book follows Margot, the daughter of a diplomat who stays in Paris during the peace conference that follows the Great War.

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, which marked the end of World War I, justification for claims to territory assumed huge importance because there was so much to be divided up and so many competing claims... the arguments fell into three main categories: strategic, ethnographic, and historical right.

The dangers of accepting a specific point in history as prove of a group's right to that land becomes apparent in examples such as the 1919 Paris Peace Conference:

Woodrow Wilson Comes to Europe On December 4, 1918, the George Washington sailed out of New York with the American delegation to the Peace Conference on board.

Every once in awhile they would hold a peace conference, trade real estate in the West Indies and rest up for a few years.

The idea to locate a session of the peace conference at Muir Woods was proposed by the Save - the - Redwoods League, a non-profit conservation organization that is devoted to protecting redwood land.

On May 19, 1945, over five hundred UNCIO delegates representing 46 different nations, took time off from the peace conference and traveled to Muir Woods to remember and honor the recently deceased President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.