Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Waiting Delegates. Meantime, not far away, Germany's delegates waited, not in hopes and dreams, but pondering what they knew would be two causes to delay translation of the words of Locarno into action: 1) political upheavals in France which robbed the French delegate temporarily of his right to vote; 2) deadlock over the creation in the Council of seats for Brazil and Spain. They refused to commit Germany to any policy to be pursued once she should be admitted to the League. They waited...
...regarded from no point of view with anything but approval. Harvard is the last large university in the East to adopt this method and it is to be hoped that the experience of other institutions will, in contributing the success of the plan here, more than offset the delay in its adoption...
...certain racial group of states, threatens to withdraw, if its aspirations are disappointed. And as if matters were not sufficiently complicated, political intrigue adds to the difficulty of the problem. In order to counteract German influence. France leans to Spain and Italy to Poland. Meanwhile Germany, chafing at the delay in obtaining the coveted seat, sends word that she will not join the League at all, if nations not concerned in the Locarno treaty, are to be admitted to the council on equal terms with...
...likewise there was delay in the U. S. Department of Labor in deporting another Mexican, General Francisco Coss, who is alleged to have overstayed his passport. General Coss was formerly Colonel Torres' superior officer, and it was feared that, in spite of assurances from the Mexican Government, Coss might also face a firing squad for "train robbery...
...spite of cloture the opposition still fought on, forcing roll calls to delay proceedings, rising to questions of personal privilege to hold back the debate...