Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...language Government Spokesman Baldwin then hinted that Germany ought to rejoin the League and subscribe to the Eastern Locarno Pact, a hint strongly repeated in Paris three days later by French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. He then told Britons that "there is no ground at this moment for undue alarm or panic" since His Majesty's Government is rapidly strengthening the Royal Air Force. "What is now happening is the tragedy of Germany.'' Mr. Baldwin concluded. "Germany has cut herself off from the comity of nations." To most of the King's subjects this, as intended...
There being no need for alarm, the enthusiastic Chamber then and there passed the French Army budget for 1935, loaded with the colossal charge of 5,689,000,000 francs ($374,000,000). An additional 800,000,000 francs will be voted later "outside the budget" (to avoid unbalancing it) and raised by a special loan. After stirring appeals from Air Minister Victor Denain, the Chamber prepared to toss him $230,000,000 and it was estimated that the total 1935 French Defense Budget will exceed...
...cause bad blood to boil between Washington and London. In Tokyo the instant result was to set Black Dragon patriots to work on plots to slay Japan's London Delegation, on the theory that in conceding even tentative superiority to Britain they had betrayed Japan. Jittery with alarm, Ambassador Matsudaira in London denied that he had ever dreamed of a 5-4-4 ratio and served notice that Japan will scrap all ratios by denouncing the Washington Naval Treaty, probably on Dec. 10, after which two years will have to elapse before the denunciation takes effect...
...knocking Protestant heads together, and at that job the Realmbishop has notoriously failed. Last week the Opposition Pastors set about organizing their own national Protestant Administration, hoped that Der Fülhrer may eventually accept it in preference to Knocker Müller's. In alarm the Realmbishop thundered, "I shall hold the office which the Eternal God gave me until the Eternal God recalls...
...Roosevelt owes his election largely to Catholics!" was the alarm sounded last year by Mexico City's independent daily El Universal Gráfico. Its editor thought he smelt a Papist in charge of Roosevelt patronage. Belief that the President, impelled by the Church, would crack down on Mexico's counter-clerical government was so strong that the official daily National took time to mourn for "Calvin Coolidge, one of the highest representatives of the human race. . . . Under [his] administration Mexico became better understood. . . . He had the good judgment to send us Mr. Morrow...