Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolt was allegedly designed to embarrass President Leguia; but the President is not easily embarrassed. Soldiers put down the uprising ruthlessly, killed 130 of the insurgents, captured many. Execution of the ringleaders followed...
...order not to embarrass il duce del Fascismo, all the Ministers of Benito Mussolini's Cabinet tendered their resignations to their chief; he received them without comment...
...agreement reached between Conservatives and Laborites. Premier MacDonald had stated his position on the Dawes plan when ex-Premier Baldwin was informed that the French Ambassador, Le Comte de Saint Aulaire, was in the Gallery. Mr. Baldwin wrote a hurried note to the Premier asking if it would embarrass the Government if he stated the Conservative point of view. The Premier nodded that it would not. Mr. Baldwin then arose and asked: " Is the right honorable gentleman aware that in his attitude he will have the united support of the British people?" The Premier replied: "I imagined...
...memo, signed by D.O. Virdin, added: "We do not want the news media to be alerted to what we are attempting to do or how we are operating because disclosure of such information might embarrass the administration...
...reply to the Cabinet's invitation to quit the country, King George stressed the fact that he had always kept aloof from politics and that he could not see that by staying in the country he would in any way embarrass the National Assembly. In deference to the wishes of the Cabinet, however, he agreed to leave Greece temporarily, declaring his "deep conviction and warmest wish that the judgment of the National Assembly of the Greek people will be guided by sentiments of love toward the fatherland and national interests...