Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from Secretary Mills a protest against cutting the Treasury Department's appropriation...
...Government of Czechoslovakia has no cause to protest against any recruiting by Japanese among White Russian residents in Czechoslovakia...
Lucy Moore, whose self-satisfaction will not stay put, demands more rarefied satisfactions than her rather commonplace virtues can provide. Though she loves her husband well, she yearns to improve him so that she can love him even more. To teach him hospitality she invites Cousin Anna, against his protest, to their home. Anna's free-&-easy behavior soon makes Lucy forget her dreams of hospitality. She dreams of her husband's possible infidelity instead. Her perverse dread alienates him. When Lucy drives Anna from the house he goes with her. In the ensuing pursuit he is drowned...
...lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free State Deputies' oath of allegiance to King George; and cancellation of the £3,000,000 Irish land annuity to Britain. What the new Irish President faced last week was a series...
Australia then issued an even stronger statement, which it sent not to London as did polite New Zealand, but direct to Dublin. It was the first major protest in history from one Dominion to another. Ominously Australia hinted that, should the Free State cut loose, Irishmen would become alien not only in Britain but in all the Dominions...