Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour and a half the President deliberated with Secretary of State Hull and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis over Germany's rearmament (see p. 20). Considered was the advisability of lodging a protest, a logical move since the U. S.-German peace treaty contained the same military clauses as the treaty of Versailles. One result of last week's European developments: Congress was expected to speed passage of military budgets...
...days later the Senate Finance Committee endorsed the House repealer. Meantime with many a snort & groan, millions of U. S. citizens filled out pink slips noting the highlights of their incomes and tax payments, filed them along with their income tax returns. "This is for the snooper," "Under protest!", "To whom it does not concern" and less printable jibes were written on the slips by taxpayers. At least one lawyer, declaring the "pink slip" law unconstitutional, filed suit to force the Treasury to keep his slip secret...
These bland British inquiries, as made by Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps at the Wilhelmstrasse, opened with a stiff "protest against" Realmleader Hitler's "unilateral action" in "putting forward, as a decision already arrived at, strengths for military effectives greatly exceeding any before suggested-strengths, moreover, which, if maintained unaltered, must make more difficult if not impossible the agreement of other powers vitally concerned...
...rights in the C. E. R. to any third power without China's consent. Nettled, the Soviet Embassy spokesman in Nanking snapped: "China has for years been unable to exercise her rights or duties regarding the C. E. R. She cannot properly reproach us. We consider this Chinese protest a mere formality...
...there is little doubt that the effect of Hitler's bombshell was as astounding to him as to the world at large. That an avowedly antagonistic, chronically suspicious France should wait four days before even calling a cabinet meeting to dispatch any sort of a protest was incredible; but that she should furthermore tag along behind a Britain become singularly prudent probably exceeded his fondest expectations...