Word: belli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a band of embattled brothers, up rose the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce because of an alleged slur on Philadelphia's hotels. Casus belli: A Fred Allen radio program in which he and Program Guest Jack Haley reminisced about a little troupers' hotel in Philadelphia. Mused Haley: "My room was so small, when anyone opened the door, the doorknob got in bed with me." Allen: "My room was so small the mice were hump-backed...
...which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great, it is left with the choice of treating the violation . . . as a casus belli...
...office blasted into the street before the eyes of watching police, and a nearby street mailbox set afire. Thus ended the worst day of terrorism since the Irish Republican Army which claims to be the only legal Government of Ireland declared "war" on Great Britain last January. The casus belli was the British refusal to recognize a united Ireland and withdraw troops from the British-controlled six northern counties...
...placing of the city in the Polish customs union. If it is accepted that Austria, the Sudetenland and Memel belong to the Reich, then by all logic Danzig should again be in Germany. A German seizure of Danzig would, indeed, be a poor casus belli for the new British-French-Polish "Peace Front...
...long wanted to oblige. But only last week realistic Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, who knows that for every inch Poland gives Germany Fuhrer Hitler will take a mile, was reported to have reminded the Reich that his country would consider the seizure of Danzig a casus belli...