Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a few hours Paris scare-sheets screamed that France, grossly insulted in the person of Ambassador Herbette, would break off diplomatic relations with Russia. By next morning, however, cooler counsels prevailed, and Le Temps, semi-official organ of the French Foreign Office said: "If there was an insult, it was not to France, but to Rumania. . . . With a government like that at Moscow it is a singularly delicate and always ungrateful task to attempt to perform good offices...
Isvestia, official news organ of the Soviet Government, saw the note as "adding insult to Stimson's meddling injury," denounced the "cynical insolence of the Rumanian Government, whose troops and gendarmes still occupy our Province of Bessarabia." Happily for Rumanians, they were prevented by strict censorship from hearing that they are "third-class," from knowing that their eight-year-old King Mihai has been grossly insulted, his honor sullied, his puissance mocked...