Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paper Protests." "When the toes of small powers are trampled upon by England, Germany expects them to do more than take it with a smile," declared a Nazi Foreign Office spokesman...
...Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung declared: "Neutrals have gone all too willingly to The Downs and have submitted to the Caudinian yoke of the British blockade. Alleged resistance to illegal British blockade practices has been confined to paper protests and resolutions discreetly submitted behind closed doors...
...prior to invasion had begun, and the excuses that Adolf Hitler's Government would give in case the Führer did invade The Netherlands or Belgium could be anticipated. Instead of declaring that "necessity knows no law" or asking "what's in a scrap of paper?" as she did last time, Germany's reasoning would be that, by submitting to the British "tyranny on the seas," Belgium and The Netherlands were, in effect, no longer neutrals but had really become British-dominated territory-hence, a proper object of attack...
...through the Foreign Offices only, and this cost the Mystery Woman her job with him. The Paris weekly Aux Ecoutes charged in 1933, when she was reported expelled from France, that she was a Nazi spy. She now claims that Lord Rothermere persuaded her not to sue the Paris paper for damages, promising to defend her honor in his newspapers. She charges that he failed to do so, and was thus doubly guilty of breach of contract...
...through surrender in some measure by the nations of their sovereign rights, in order to clear the way for some more organic union. But if it is our hope to create a more truly international system out of independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over, we shall have...