Word: direct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight. The retort of Moscow's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov that the U. S. note was an unfriendly act seemed to cause Statesman Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply at all and to observe to correspondents: "Between co-signatories of the Pact, it can never be rightly thought unfriendly that one nation call to the attention of another its obligations or the dangers to peace which may from time to time arise. . . . In the language of the joint...
...detachment of 20 Marines who told them the strike was over, warned them to disperse. Instead, the Haitians, armed only with machetes, clubs, field tools, attempted to rush the town. The Marines volleyed over the mob's head, then scattered them with 250 rounds of direct fire. Five Haitians were killed, 20 wounded. One Marine was bitten in the hand...
Paradox of the debate: Anglo-Soviet rapprochement was vigorously though un successfully championed by the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, who thundered: "I favor the creation of some direct channel through which we may protest the Soviet oppression of ministers of religion...
...conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes were bombing Chinese villages. He meant well, meant to stop any possibility of slaughter. But to Comrade Litvinov, who knew from his direct wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion. His note in reply said: ". . . the [Stimson] declaration cannot but be considered unjustifiable pressure on the [Sino-Russian] negotiations, and cannot therefore be taken...
Lack of official relations forced Comrade Litvinov to send his reply through the same slow grapevine via which he received the U. S. note, namely the French Embassy at Moscow. Correspondents cabled it direct, caused Statesman Stimson's acute embarrassment, placed him in a position where he found it necessary to break a state department rule and comment on a communication from a foreign power before he actually received...