Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis had already outdistanced the older Austrian Fascist group, the Heimwehr, as a political force. They were springing up in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, even Rumania, and all taking their orders from Handsome Adolf. In Fulda three weeks ago a conference of German bishops announced that good Catholics need no longer abstain from National Socialism. It was not impossible that should a Holy Roman Triple Alliance become a fact, Adolf Hitler, and not Benito Mussolini, might become Head...
After that nothing but approving votes were heard until Siam's Assemblyman softly murmured "Abstain."* Other abstainees who either sent no Assemblyman or simply did not vote totaled 13: Abyssinia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Honduras, Irak, Liberia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador. Gravely President Hymans read out the final count: 42 to 1-hailed in Geneva as "The World against Japan!" Ruling that the Committee of 19's recommendations had been adopted "unanimously,"* Mr. Hymans called Japan a land "which seems desirous of retiring into isolation and carrying on its policy without taking into account the opinion...
Significance. Japan, barring collapse of her Government, retains power to abstain from and thereby hamstring both the coming World Economic Conference on which so much hope is pinned and the World Disarmament Conference, now bogged down among committees which haggle endlessly at Geneva...
Most important of all is this final, negative proviso: "It follows that, in adopting this report, the members of. the League intend to abstain, particularly as regards the existing regime in Manchuria [i. e. the "Government of Manchukuo"] from any act which might prejudice or delay the carrying out of the recommendations of the said report. They will continue not to recognize this regime, either de jure or de facto...
Dead Silence. Most embittered delegate at the Conference last week was China's Dr. W. W. Yen. He proposed an amendment which would have bound the Conference countries to abstain from the warlike bombing of civil populations, adding that he had Manchuria in mind. When Sir John Simon made two points? 1) that China and Japan are not legally at war; 2) that it would be senseless to prohibit bombing in peace time?Dr. Yen withdrew his resolution in bitter disgust...