Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew that at such a late hour lifting the embargo would involve the U. S. in diplomatic trouble and threaten U. S. peace far more effectively than it could help Loyalist Spain. This put the President in an unusual spot for him: on the unpopular side of a question. But he did not refer to these facts when he replied, through the press, to the clamoring friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State Department, whose legalists gave his answer: The President is powerless to lift the embargo on Spain. The general Neutrality...
...Committee and the forces of Economy, Colorado's Adams said: "The heart of the problem is the far greater question of the confidence of the people in their Congress, and whether we are going to sustain that confidence...
...Paris, just a few hours later, Premier Daladier wound up in the Chamber of Deputies a long foreign policy debate which had hinged on the Spanish problem. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet had warned that a "question of force" might soon arise. M. Daladier said that events were "racing toward a climax," that the "hour of peril" was approaching. But the debate showed such a fatal division of opinion on exactly what constituted a peril that France seemed paralyzed...
...combined to give M. Daladier a 374-to-228 vote of confidence on his non-intervention policy. A vote on the Government's motion to "maintain the integrity of the French Empire and the security of its imperial routes" was unanimous - 609-to-0. It was on this question that M. Daladier became eloquent...
...fascist triumph in Catalonia appears to be beyond question. ... It seems to me sure that the Spanish tragedy will end its days of active war very soon...