Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Germany, which agreed to attend the London conference, did so out of unwillingness to offend Britain, France and the U.S. The West Germans would much rather stay home. They have business interests of their own to develop in the Arab Middle East and do not want to incur Arab hostility. In such an event they fear that Nasser's revenge might be to recognize Communist East Germany, which would compel Chancellor Adenauer to make good on his threat to break off relations with any nation that recognizes the East German government...
...giving aid to a new nation, one must not offend its old master...
Greece, whose ties with its NATO allies have been badly strained by the conflict over Cyprus, should have offered Shepilov ideally troubled waters in which to fish. On the Cyprus issue, however, his hands were tied by Russian reluctance to offend Turkey. (The Montreux Convention, which gives the U.S.S.R. access to the Dardanelles, expires this year.) Otherwise, Shepilov had little to offer the Greeks except the conventional invitation to Moscow-an invitation which Greece's staunchly pro-American Premier Karamanlis was in no hurry to snap...
...trees pray for those who offend...
...public security, all but 30 were originally decreed by Mussolini. Under them Italy's police enjoy such powers as those of forbidding citizens to change their city of residence, of banishing people to remote spots like Sardinia (or Eboli), and of seizing for trial all those who "publicly offend against the honor or dignity of the government." To defend the government's retention of these Fascist laws, Christian Democratic leaders from the late Alcide de Gasperi on pointed to the internal Communist threat to Italian democracy. Simultaneously, the Demo-Christians quietly stalled all moves to establish a court...