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...Nevertheless Herr Ribbentrop directed the Count to protest, whereupon the Ambassador reported: "M. Bonnet said that in foreign political debates before the Chamber things were often said that obviously were meant only for internal consumption and did not have any further importance." M. Bonnet contended, wired the Ambassador to his chief, that when he "braved the opposition" to put across "justified German demands," he could scarcely be expected to "abdicate all along the line before the Chamber." "If I did so," the Foreign Minister was quoted as saying, "then the warmongers would gain the upper hand...
...three days Stockholm awaited Russia's reply to the Swedish protest. A hard answer might bring war. Nobody realized this more clearly than Joseph Stalin. When the answer came, it was a formal apology...
...Inter-American Neutrality Conference at Panama undertook to establish a "neutrality belt" extending an average of 300 miles from the North and South American coasts. On Dec. 23 Panama's President Augusto Samuel Boyd protested against violation of that zone in the battle between the Admiral Graf Spee and three British cruisers (TIME, Dec. 25). In last week's reply to both the original declaration and the protest, Great Britain flatly refused to admit that a neutrality belt existed...
...other argument concerned only the U. S. and Great Britain. Last month the U. S. Department of State sent Great Britain a "vigorous protest" against interference with mail carried from the U. S. on American or neutral ships. Last week Great Britain politely refused to yield. As long as the U. S. does not object to classifying money, securities or jewels as contraband, the British intimated that they would continue to examine mails bound for Germany to see if they contained anything valuable. The British did not mention that somehow the mail was censored while officers were looking through...
...British War Office last week grimly waited for the arrival of a delegation of determined Scots. The Highland Association was rallying Scottish members of Parliament to protest a recent War Office order: "No more kilts will be issued until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have struggled against what they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection...