Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon sent the League of Nations off into gales of laughter by reading two cablegrams sent to. him in Moscow by the former Soviet Minister to Uruguay who sat beside M. Litvinoff last week. Russia, said her Foreign Minister, had refused, just before the cablegrams were sent, to admit to Russia an anarchist named Simon Radovitsky whom Uruguay was anxious to deport...
Cabled Soviet Minister Alexander Minkin: URUGUAYAN FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS ME PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC WOULD CONSIDER HIMSELF COMPENSATED FOR OUR REFUSAL TO ADMIT RADOVITSKY IF WE WOULD BUY 200 TONS OR SO OF URUGUAYAN CHEESE. I WOULD RECOMMEND FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT TERRA THE PURCHASE OF A SMALL CONSIGNMENT OF CHEESE...
Trade. Three months later President Wilson, outraged by British interference with U. S. commerce and by the British "blacklist" of U. S. firms accused of dealing with the Central Powers, wrote to his most intimate friend & adviser, Col. Edward Mandell House: "I am, I must admit, about at the end of my patience with Great Britain and the Allies. . . . I am seriously considering asking Congress to authorize me to prohibit loans and restrict exportations to the Allies. It is becoming clear to me that there lies latent in this policy the wish to prevent our merchants getting a foothold...
...have his way in East Africa have been too unprincipled even for Gallic tastes. The so-called Hoare-Laval peace proposals which so nearly sent a British cabinet to its doom also did sufficient harm to Laval's already shaky reputation as an international peacemaker. Realistic France must now admit that the way to insure peace is not to let Mussolini have a free hand but rather to crush him before he and his imitators more seriously upset the order of the world...
...offices some 6,000 employes, promptly cut off the payroll, sat down at their desks and wondered whether it would be constitutional for them to sharpen their pencils. No one gave them advice. There was peace along the Potomac, the peace that arises on those infrequent occasions when politicians admit that some thing surpasses their understanding. Not a Republican voice rose to chant triumphantly that Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Not a Democratic voice promised that Humpty Dumpty would be put to gether again. "No news on that today," was all that the White House...