Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin last week Premier Göring had so stamped his dominance upon the capital that he felt safe in ordering disbanded on Aug. 15 the "auxiliary Prussian police" enrolled from Nazi Storm Troops six months ago and hotly protested in Geneva by France and her allies as "disguised soldiers violating the Treaty of Versailles." How many such troops or police there may have been is Premier Göring's secret. He said 30,000 last week, but protest estimates have always been at least...
...France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more especially to the Four-Power Peace Pact recently signed in Rome by Britain, France, Italy and Germany (TIME, June 19). As one dictator to another Benito Mussolini...
...Vienna the Dollfuss Government pressed their advantage by charging that on the very morning of the protests in Berlin "15 uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, searched the shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited...
...overnight the Pennsylvania coal strike had flared up from a local ruckus in Fayette County to a national menace. Trouble started with H. C. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp. A few thousand Frick workers joined the United Mine Workers of America and struck in protest against the formation of company unions. The issue was whether the non-union Frick company would recognize the national union. It would not - on orders from the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. The strike spread so rapidly that many a miner was left down the shaft when his fellows...
When President Roosevelt selected not only a woman but one without any labor affiliations for the bottom place in his Cabinet, the A. F. of L. squawked a loud protest. Declared Mr. Green: "The Secretary of Labor should be representative of labor, one who understands labor, labor's problems, labor's psychology, collective bargaining, industrial relations. . . . Labor can never become reconciled to the selection made...