Word: desisted
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Robert Williams, General Secretary of the Transport Workers: "War with France is nearer today than war with Germany was in 1911. We cannot desist from criticism of and protest against the wanton policy pursued by France in destroying the economic integrity of Europe. The working class must seek to establish a real democratic diplomacy. We must challenge the assumption that Poincare speaks for France any more than Curzon for England. Unity of the working class is the only means of preventing...
...individual is trodden down in this debauched oligarchy of witlessness. At the Fogg Museum this morning, while I was cutting out four illustrations from a book in the library one of the students across the table looked up and threatened to report me if I did not desist. I cleverly conceived an explanation which proved satisfactory and went off with the prints, but the insolence of the thing humiliated me. To have one's very actions questioned,--it's preposterous...