Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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During this interval Hitler's obvious move is to protest his friendship for the U. S.; to seek loans from the U. S., arguing that he needs reconstruction help in order to live in peace in Europe; to invite the U. S. to enter into as much friendly trade as will supply him with strategic materials he needs; to prosecute trade and political penetration in South America in order to prepare for his ultimate attack-and perhaps to subsidize a few Nazi revolutions; even to promise to make a lasting peace with the U. S. on condition that...
Perennial problem of the Friends, who are militant pacifists, is War. Last week they reaffirmed their pacifism, told young Friends how they could avoid military drill at college,* sent Quaker Paul Comly French to Washington in vigorous protest against the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill now before Congress...
...with her minuscule Army, insignificant Air Force, and practically nonexistent Navy, she was determined to fight off invasion from every side. England, separated by less than 75 miles of water, was more uneasy about the Irish than at any time since 1938, when, over Churchill's violent protest, Neville Chamberlain had voluntarily evacuated the British naval bases in Eire. From Brittany German planes could hop to the centre of Eire without crossing English territory. The I. R. A., a well-organized and experienced fifth column, was responding to Nazi agitation, accepting German equipment and funds. The aggressive German Minister...
...normal course of events, a few stanch followers of the Traveler's, editorial page would have nod ded their heads over Joe Toye's diatribe, and that would have been that. But City Editor Horton Edmands, one day last week, found in his mail a letter of protest from the German Consulate in Boston...
...Scholz uttered a protest once before, when the Traveler, in a syndicated story by Washington Columnist Harlan Miller, hinted that he had tried in vain to crash Washington society. The Traveler apologized. Last week it looked as if Consul Scholz had protested once too often...