Word: forbearance
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...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 as a friendly act. . . . The Soviet Government cannot forbear expressing amazement that the Government of the U. S., which by its own will has no official relations with the Soviet, deems it possible to apply to it with advice and counsel...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H. Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
General Peter N. Krassnoff, onetime Ataman of the Don Cossacks, now author (Double-Eagle to Red Flag), does not forbear, despite the promise of his publishers, to backslap at Russia's revolutionists...
...with the Patriarch of Rumania, bearded Miron Cristea, presiding in his twinkling medieval mitre. Lustily sang the new peasant Deputies and Senators, clad in immaculate white homespun blouses and white legging trousers. For them the Te Deum was a stately song of triumph. Good honest fellows-some could not forbear to skip a bit for joy as the procession moved from Cathedral to Parliament. There it was quickly seen how complete had been the triumph of Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu at the Parliamentary elections completed last week. Of :he 376 seats in the Chamber of Deputies...