Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arranged three months ago in the rosy afterglow of the Munich Deal, the trip was not expected to amount to much more than the formalizing of a standoff. This prospect was underscored when, much to II Duce's disappointment, the British stopped "for tea" with Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet in Paris. There they were informed once again that France will not countenance Mr. Chamberlain as a "mediator" to settle Italian-French troubles...
Result was another standoff. For direct quotation onetime History Professor Dodd declared of his interview: "We accompanied the delivery of our instructions with a verbal expose of what the attacks mean in the way of beclouding German-American relations, but left it to the German authorities to draw their own conclusions." U. S. correspondents in Berlin reported authoritatively that mild Ambassador Dodd had actually barked one of the stiffest complaints ever delivered by one Government to another, proclaiming the U. S. Government & people thoroughly shocked by the Nazi press's "unparalleled coarse, indecent language." But his trip...