Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League. It seeks to strengthen the links between the nations that meet at Geneva to assure to the covenant she has signed more & more force and effectiveness. It seeks to organize mutual assistance. It seeks to halt the armaments race and this country will not cease to repeat her appeal until she has been heard...
...final radio appeal, rousing to every European listener who swears by democracy, the Premier of France climaxed: "History shows that no real, stable peace can be established on injustice or on egoism! . . . The only stable peace is a general peace-that only viable solutions of European problems are all-round settlements...
...ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved to appeal the case to a higher British court this week...
Said Lawyer Kerstein: "Our appeal will probably be based on the ground that the judge misdirected the jury." Indicating that in his opinion Hon. Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord had charged in such a way that the jury thought McMahon had suddenly made up and told in court for the first time a fantastic story, Lawyer Kerstein declared, "McMahon had 'told the same story to the War Office and to the police months ago. . . . Military intelligence officers had details of the main part of the plot and verified many of McMahon's statements. . . . The foreign power concerned is Germany...
...British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly on the part of English juries, to regard newspaper faults which come under their notice as calling for vindictive punishment." Conditions in Scotland are better, opined Mr. Dawson, but he raised a rallying appeal to obtain by House of Commons action greater freedom of the press in Great Britain...