Word: abstain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Rus sia may be resumed) : "The initiative should come from the Soviet Government, whose hostile activities compelled the British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign Office refused to issue passports to five children, nominated by British Communist organizations to visit Russia as guests of the Moscow Congress...
...Again, if beholding overmuch intemperance in his flock, he exhorteth all men to abstain from strong drink...
Conclusion. "His Majesty's Government are not concerned with the domestic affairs of Russia nor with its form of government. All they require is that that Government should refrain from interference with purely British concerns and abstain from hostile action or propaganda against British subjects...
...Washington, the National W. C. T. U. (Mrs. Ella A. Boole, President) closed its midwinter conference after appealing to public officials to abstain from drinking; to society leaders, magazine editors, cinema producers to stigmatize drinking as bad form. The Unionists visited, President Coolidge and announced that the "national conscience" was "awakening." Four Washington debutantes quit ushering for the Union. Praised for having vowed neither to smoke nor to drink, they were incensed...
...Discussed in secret the secretly presented report on foreign affairs of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. The report is persistently rumored to contain an allusion to the alleged intention of France to transfer to Italy her troublesome League Mandate in Syria-Italy then to abstain from all interference with French interests in Morocco...