Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister Count Ciano sent to British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax a stiff, formal note, warning that "the coal in question meets an indispensable need in the life and labor of the Italian people," criticizing Britain's coal blockade system it declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships carrying German coal. In Rotterdam other Italian ships were still loading coal. Question: would...
...weeks later in Berlin, French Ambassador Robert Coulondre, apparently on orders of M. Bonnet, assured Herr Ribbentrop that "France will not undertake any political steps in Eastern Europe that would disturb Germany...
Slight, brisk, spruce in the uniform of a major general of the British Expeditionary Force, the Duke of Windsor appeared at a London hotel, quickly turned in, leaving a "do not disturb" request at the desk. He was in England "on business." The Duchess of Windsor remained in France...
...impermissible campaign" against the Soviet Union which could be explained only "if Sweden were in a state of war with the U.S.S.R. or was preparing for war." To Norway, Russia was even more threatening, declaring that "actions of the Norwegian authorities . . . may lead to undesirable complications and disturb the normal relations between the Soviet Union and Norway...