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idea and Peace
The concept of a peaceful community of nations had been proposed as far back as 1795, when Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch outlined the idea of a league of nations to control conflict and promote peace between states.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.
* 1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
The idea of an international court of justice arose in the political world at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, where it was declared that arbitration between states was the easiest solution to disputes, providing a temporary panel of judges to arbitrate in such cases, the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Supporters of concept of Westphalian sovereignty consider that the modern idea of territorial integrity began with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
* October 14 – Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps of the United States.
" Still, though all Canadian nationals were as equally British subjects as their British counterparts prior to the implementation of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947, the idea of Canadian-born persons being appointed governor general was raised as early as 1919, when, at the Paris Peace Conference, Canadian prime minister Robert Borden consulted with Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha and the two agreed that the viceregal appointees should be long-term residents of their respective dominions.
The idea of a Common Peace proved to be enduring, however, and numerous attempts would be made to establish one, with little more success than the original.
During the war he resisted the idea of giving up any territory to the Soviet Union, but was forced to agree to sign the Moscow Peace Treaty in 1940.
The articles in Class War, issued bi-monthly when its profile was at its highest, criticised pacifism and the Peace movement, arguing the idea that violence is a necessary part of the class struggle.
Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich ( 1874 – 1947 ) initiated the modern movement for the defense of cultural objects, for the idea ofPeace of Civilizations ”.
Holtom later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater depth: " I was in despair.
The police scotched the idea that any revelation of hers had assisted them to identify " John Ward " with Charles Peace.
First, they proposed the Acadia Peace College, but the idea was quickly dropped and COA as a school of human ecology was granted temporary approval on June 23, 1969, by the Maine State Board of Education.
George sought to establish a " Charter of a Universal Peace Union ", with the idea that all monarchs should tried to consolidate sustainable peace on the principle of national sovereignty of states, principles of non-interference and solving problems and disputes before an International Tribunal.
Carnegie and the original map of the Peace PalaceThe idea of the Palace started from a discussion in 1900 between the Russian diplomat Friedrich Martens and the US diplomat Andrew White, over providing a home for the Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), which was established through the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
On January 15, 2009 the idea to appoint a secretary of peace in a Department of Peace was voted as one of the top 10 Ideas for Change in America.
On January 16, 2009 the idea to appoint a secretary of peace in a Department of Peace was one of 10 ideas delivered to President Obama's transition team.
* The Hague, Netherlands, at the Peace Palace, dedicated to the idea of international peace
After Father Divine died in 1965, Tommy, now 11, still having no true idea as to what had happened to his life, began to increasingly rebel against the ' confining ' rules of the Peace Mission.
Peace gaming is based on the idea that global simulations which are modeled entirely on military actions ( war gaming ) can never be more than zero-sum games.
The Peace Workshop gave rise to the idea of a book that intended to map out some of the arguments between the disputing parties.
The authors of the main street bias critique published a formal paper on this idea in the Journal of Peace Research.

idea and Corps
Gen. John Bell Hood moved forward against the troops of the Union V Corps, and Longstreet withdrew them at 8: 30 p. m., having a better idea of the terrain and enemy soldiers in the area.
In 1916, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers revisited the idea of a commercial harbor, but declared it economically impractical.
In August 1917 he conceived the idea of a surprise attack in IV Corps sector that his unit occupied.
The idea, modeled after the federal Civilian Conservation Corps program ( 1933 – 42 ), was to take the burden of labor-intensive jobs such as entrance fee collecting or trail work from the National Park Service and shift to the SCC.
Attention turned to the idea of building a railroad bridge over the river in 1873, and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers commissioned a study of a bridge over the Detroit River.
While at first reluctant to accept the idea of its men sleeping in hammocks, the United States Marine Corps later employed jungle hammocks in New Britain and later Pacific island campaigns where heavy rain and insects were prevalent ; concerns over injuries from machine gun and artillery fire were overcome by first digging a slit trench, then staking the hammock's support lines to suspend the hammock beneath ground level.
In March 1941 the president of the Chamber of Commerce contacted Harold S. Darr, who operated a primary flight school for the Air Corps in Albany, Georgia ( Albany Army Airfield ) to promote the idea to locate the new school in the Augusta area.
The idea behind a waterway usage fee was that the Army Corps of Engineers built dams and other expensive waterway projects, which the barge industry got to use for free.
When World War I broke out, being an enemy national, he went to Egypt, where together with Ze ' ev Jabotinsky he developed the idea of the Jewish Legion to fight with the British against common enemies and, the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1915, considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces.
If Washington, D. C. officials did not like the idea of a musical / revue about the Army, playwright Irving Berlin was ready to call it This Is the Navy, or This Is the Air Corps.
Upon returning home he was summoned by Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase to bring his balloon to Washington, D. C. Lowe ended up as Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps, which all but ended any idea of his making a transatlantic flight.
The idea for Randolph began soon after passage in the United States Congress of the Air Corps Act of 1926, which changed the name of the Army Air Service to the Army Air Corps, created two new brigadier general positions and provided a five-year expansion program for the under-strength Air Corps.
In 1981, she spoke about the contribution that volunteers had made around the world, " I think the whole idea of Peace Corps was brought home to me most recently last summer, when there was a terribly damaging hurricane in the Caribbean.
Milroy, despite the engagements up to point, still had no idea that he was facing the entire Second Corps of Lee's Army.
It is said the idea was borrowed from the French crewmen encountered during World War I when then-Captain George S. Patton, Jr. established the United States Tank Corps.
Crerar nixed an idea to use 3350 brand-new I Corps headquarters vehicles to equip the 5th division.
Shapp is " credited with promoting the idea that eventually led to the creation of the Peace Corps ".
He presented this idea to the United States Marine Corps ( USMC ), and he was directed to present his proposal.
General Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles, together with Colonel Fuller came up with the idea of a black beret for the Royal Tank Corps after being influenced by the 70th Chasseurs Alpines, who wore a black beret at the time.
" I lost time and ground because I sought a broad range of opinions for starting the Crisis Corps even though I knew it was a good idea.

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