Word: caution
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koki Hirota and firmly antiCommunist, cracked the whip last week and civilian leaders of both great Japanese political parties expressed warm approval of the Hitler Crusade. Ready were Army zealots to smash any Japanese of consequence who disagreed, but they did not bother last week about certain notes of caution sounded by large Tokyo newspapers with Big Business connections. Of these Nichi Nichi, the boldest, said: "We heartily welcome friendship with Germany, but we feel as though we are running after a fly with a hatchet if the agreement is aimed only against the Communist International. Japan need not stand...
Moscow correspondents have been hearing for months Kremlin rumors that the Foreign Minister had lost favor with the Dictator over the question of Spain; Comrade Litvinoff insisting on Russia's policy of furnishing only minimum aid to Madrid, Comrade Stalin reputedly chafing at the diplomatic necessity for caution. By last week the increasing Soviet "minimum aid" had become sufficient to enable Madrid to make a strong stand against the Whites...
Again and again Madrid proletarians were driven in mad, screaming retreat, but again and again their shattered lines reformed to attempt fresh resistance with Spanish stubbornness, then suffer another rout. Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness. The steep-banked Manzanares River still lay between him and the capital and he knew its six bridges were heavily mined, but along with attending to military details he was also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which...
...sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone set up for the occasion. Guessing the Nominee's intention, and well aware that the Charterites, now allied with local Democrats, were anathema to the Republican machine which they had ousted, Adviser Taft hurried after his principal to caution: "Go easy on that, Governor. You know." "Yes, I know, I know," returned the Nominee. Moment later he was at the microphone. "I want to congratulate you," he cried to Cincinnatians, "on your Charter form of government. . . . You have gotten away from the city machines which...
...Ours is not like that," said the conservative economist. "Our plan makes for slow action, probably for hesitation if you please, for caution and with resultant failure to secure that degree of appreciation, that quick action which might be very well expected if an investment trust were conducted, let us say, by Mr. Barney Baruch...