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After three-months of silence the American Independence League swung into action yesterday with a vigorous protest to "several Massachusetts Congressmen" against U. S. Ambassador James Cromwell's speech in Canada criticizing American neutrality...
Immediate responses from the Bay State's two Senators brought encouragement to A. I. L. leaders who had asked for an energetic protest against Cromwell's "pro-Ally" outburst because of "its flagrant violation of our diplomatic integrity." They had wired support of any move for the envoy's recall...
...This is a sore spot that had better be left untouched," snarled vitriolic Editor Virginio Gayda last week in Rome's semiofficial Giornale d'ltalia. The sore spot was on the Italian economic body, but ignoring Italian wincings, Great Britain proceeded to prod it. Despite an Italian protest "in firmest language," 13 Italian colliers bound for home with 100,000 tons of German coal had been stopped, after due warning that the shipments must cease, by British warships as they sailed from Rotterdam. They had been escorted through the Channel mine fields to The Downs, there to await...
...accusation, invited Mitch and the press to visit the St. Thomas centre and see for themselves. But Mitch weaseled, refused to visit the camp, complained, "You might go to a house the day after a murder was committed there and find no evidence of a disturbance at all." In protest against the Kingfish's undignified antics, this week his right-hand man and Provincial Secretary, Harry Nixon, resigned from the Ontario Cabinet...
...Ball, the son of a Confederate colonel, is a passionate believer in Southern womanhood and States' Rights. Once, in a letter to the Baltimore Sun, Editor Ball wrote: "The News & Courier would . . . protest against sending two young women to jail even though they made slighting remarks about the Confederate flag...