Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo Government sent to London a belated reply to their note demanding fullest apology for the shooting two weeks ago of British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson (TIME, Sept. 6). Reports from London indicated that the reply was not worth waiting for: it contained no formal apology, was patently a Japanese attempt to gain time. The British Cabinet was thought likely to send another ''stiff note...
...Japanese Ambassador that Sir Hughe was rushed by the rest of his party (all uninjured) but to the Country Hospital in Shanghai's International Settlement, where a U. S. Marine Navy Pharmacist's Mate Horace Albert Thomson obliged with a blood transfusion. Instead of making a formal apology the Japanese rebuked the British Ambassador for not having a Union Jack spread on the roof of his car. The attitude of Whitehall to this attack on the sacrosanct person of their Ambassador was "one of unbounded exasperation." Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden promised to take "appropriate measures," dispatched a note...
This consisted of a demand for a formal apology, suitable punishment of those responsible, and "an assurance by the Japanese authorities that necessary measures will be taken to prevent recurrence of events of such a character." The British took no special notice of the fact that it was His Majesty's Ambassador who had been shot in the liver; the note went so far as to say that his diplomatic status was "irrelevant." "The real crime" was that the car's occupants were "non-combatants." The British Foreign Office thus really sidestepped the implications of an attack...
...actually runs the highly simplified government of Rightist Spain is no larger than the very elementary requirements of a military dictatorship. Francisco Franco, one of the few Spaniards on the peninsula who does not take two hours off for lunch, does most of his own work. He has no formal cabinet, but is helped by a handful of more or less obscure administrators...
...world was a sight to be seen like the spectacle last week on the blue water off Newport, R. I. Two oldtime, square-rigged windjammers sailed off together on a voyage. They were bound southeast few Bermuda, 660 miles away. So far as anyone knew this was the first formal match race in U. S. sailing history between two square-riggers, privately owned and under yacht pennants. Prizes were a special trophy offered by Commodore Van Santvoord Merle-Smith of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (Oyster Bay, L. I.) and a dinner for all hands, to be consumed in Bermuda...