Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edouard Daladier limited himself to a lukewarm acceptance of the four-power pact, there were many ventriloquist dummies available to say what he and most Frenchmen really felt. Loudest was the French Press, howling down the Mussolini Plan as an international plot to render France defenseless and rob her of hard-earned gains...
...Geneva. U. S. Ambassador Gibson was reading the Hoover plan to the assembled delegates at the Disarmament Conference. The President had made his proposal as a bold and radical attempt to galvanize the conference into action after five months of fumbling. Its reception by the Conference was only lukewarm. But plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if the Conference rejected the U. S. proposal and then adjourned, the U. S. door would be slammed upon all European powers who might come to Washington seeking reduction of their War Debts because of hard times. The President's plan...
...That naval limitation proceed by an extension of the Washington and London Naval Pacts (proposed by the U. S., Britain and Italy with France and Japan lukewarm...
...Rescue. From the beginning of the Shanghai incident Britain, who long had an alliance with Japan, and France, who has aspirations of her own for the Chinese province of Yunnan, have been lukewarm in their protests to Tokyo. But the actions of Admiral Shiosawa changed all that. In London King-Emperor George V presided at a special cabinet meeting. Two British cruisers were sent racing to Shanghai from Singapore. Artillery and infantry were ordered up from Hongkong. French troops barricaded their concession against Japan. An Italian destroyer landed 150 marines. Even Portugal did her bit. She owns the little peninsula...
...sent a delegation to Austin to urge it. With the plan already doomed to defeat through Texas' failure to adopt it. Governor Long said he would declare the Louisiana bill "null and void and inoperative." Oklahoma cotton growers agreed to follow Texas. Alabama and Mississippi were still lukewarm. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner announced that no session of his General Assembly would be called "to completely abandon the growing of cotton." His points: 1) The trouble with U. S. cotton is not quantity but quality. 2) The South must learn to compete in the world market...