Word: protestable
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...Ritchie of Maryland is a stern man. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Italian Embassy, ran into the automobile of a citizen, one Marks. A policeman came up. The Count paid Mr. Marks $30 and departed. Then he entered a protest to the State Department-asked an apology and his money back, asserting that it had been extorted. Mr. Kellogg wrote to Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Ritchie wrote back, saying that the State police officer had been tactful and merely acted as an arbiter in the settlement of damages...
...When Herr Schiele was forced by the Nationalists to resign from the Cabinet, as a protest against the Locarno treaties, he broke down and sobbed on bidding us, his fellow ministers, goodbye. Previously, when asked if he approved of the Locarno Pacts, he answered with a loud and joyous...
...whose noble character and loyalty to me in difficult times I shall never forget. ... The coup d'état which Reza Khan has just committed against the constitution and against my dynasty was made at the point of the bayonet. . . . Against it I have raised a vehement and solemn protest. I consider as void and without value all present and future acts of his government. I maintain all my rights and those of my dynasty to the throne of Persia, which, by the grace of God, I hold according to the fundamental laws of my country's constitution...
...recalled that Shah Ahmad has been leading a notoriously languid and luxurious existence in Europe for the past two years. For him to evince sufficient interest in Persian affairs even to "vehemently protest" is something of an event...
...mind noted that early in the week the Shah seemed indifferent toward events in Persia. It was only after Prince Samad Khan Momtaz, the Persian Minister to France, had anxiously sought him at the Hotel Majestic, that he took what is for him an unprecedentedly firm stand. His "protest" is not expected to count for much against the "bayonets" of Reza Khan. The British Government has already given "provisional recognition" to the new "provisional government" of Persia. The Russian Government, which has been freely rumored to be behind Reza Khan, recognized the new regime by telegraph almost before...