Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 19, under Political Note, your comment on the Rhode Island Congressional election is very amusing to us Democrats. I can't for the life of me understand how the election of a Republican Congressman in a State which up until six months ago was run by Republicans is a plebiscite on the New Deal. Maybe the GOP's don't know that the area in question represents less than 1% of the area and population of the U.S. They also forget to mention that the people in Rhode Island have never tried to make a living by growing...
...could not let the ceremony pass. Was it, they asked, a bouquet from a bride or a skunk cabbage from a scullery maid? What right had Charles Curtis to speak for Kansas? What right had he to propose a candidate for President? By way of answer, they produced a note written by Mr. Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred his legal residence, as of March 4, 1933, to Washington, D. C. No more was onetime Vice President Curtis a Kansan, and on Nov. 3, 1936, as a resident of the District...
...have the honor," Ambassador Bullitt told Acting Soviet Foreign Commissar Nikolai Krestinsky in the formal U. S. note, "to call attention to the activities, involving interference in the internal affairs of the United States, which have taken place on the territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . . . and . . . to lodge a most emphatic protest against the flagrant violation of the pledge given by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . . . prior to the establishment of diplomatic relations...
...even stronger language the Bullitt note declared that the Roosevelt Administration "anticipates the most serious consequences if the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is unwilling or unable to take appropriate measures to prevent further disregard of the solemn pledge given by it. . . ." Finally came the threat that if violations continue "the development of friendly relations between the Russian and American peoples will inevitably be precluded...
This punch was pulled by telling Washington correspondents at the State Department not to interpret the Bullitt note's strong language as meaning that President Roosevelt means to sever U. S.-Soviet relations. Its meaning last week seemed to be that the Administration, whether or not it was ever privately fooled by the Litvinoff pledge, does not choose to be fooled publicly any longer...