Word: counterprotest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiffest complaints ever delivered by one Government to another, proclaiming the U. S. Government & people thoroughly shocked by the Nazi press's "unparalleled coarse, indecent language." But his trip to the German Foreign Office elicited neither "apology" nor "regrets" from the Foreign Minister, only an "explanation" accompanied by counterprotest against "malicious and untrue" U. S. press comments on Germany. The explanation, as reported in a semi-official communique, was: "If the language of some of the German newspapers went, perhaps, beyond the desired limits, this was due only to irritation. An insult to the American nation...
...until a few miles from the finish line. New York Yacht Club racing rules call for a protest flag to be displayed "promptly." On the complicated ground that, by not flying a protest flag immediately after the first foul, Endeavour had deprived Rainbow of a chance to enter a counterprotest, thereby preventing the Committee from disqualifying Endeavour in case it found Rainbow rather than Endeavour to be the injured party, the Race Committee refused to entertain the Sopwith protest. Mr. Sopwith kept silent until after...