Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little League of Nations and Little World Court, which Colombia and the Dominican Republic introduced out of friendliness to the U. S. at Buenos Aires two years ago. And toward Franklin Roosevelt's program for Continental Solidarity against Fascism, Latin American response has been noncommittal and cautious. Cordell Hull will have to be equally cautious about defining the limits of the Good Neighbor Policy: there are bold Latin American spirits who, inspired by the absence of downright Dollar Diplomacy in the current U. S. attitude toward expropriations in Mexico and Bolivia, think the Good Neighbor is perhaps ripe...
...While cautious to avoid any reflections on either University, Colwell was enthusiastic about his job and the staff here. Speaking on the Harlow system as one has had experience opposing it, he said that the Crimson offense was the hardest of any he had faced as a backfield...
...policy of bending like a reed before the Nazi storm, then snapping back with General Syrovy like a whalebone, President Benes meanwhile attracted some aid from the ever-cautious Soviet Dictator. For once, Joseph Stalin, ordinarily content to leave Russian foreign policy largely to Maxim Litvinoff, who was at Geneva all week (see p. 16), suddenly bestirred himself in Moscow. The Soviet press was not permitted to announce the fact, but the Kremlin flashed to Warsaw a drastic threat that, if Poland should invade Czechoslovakia, Russia would at once denounce her 1932 Treaty of Non-Aggression with Poland and "march...
...announce dramatically that Leftist Spain, which has been sending home its foreign volunteers for several weeks past, will now send the last of them home (see below), and only asks the League of Nations to send a commission to Spain to verify this fact. The cautious Assembly did not at once appoint the commission requested by Dr. Negrin, but he was cheered for having struck a purely idealistic note "proving that the League is not dead...
Intent on avoiding a repetition of last week's disturbance, many turned back their watches before retiring Saturday night. Likewise cautious, the power companies shut off the electricity at 5.30 o'clock yesterday morning...