Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marti closed his prospectus with a solemn protest to the League of Nations that "the Government of a Country . . . has insidiously seized the ideas and propositions contained in my plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
Sirs: I respectfully protest against the article published in your issue of Jan. 20 under the title of "New CINCUS," by which you no doubt mean Commander-in-Chief, U. S. I do so because I think your dirty digs at Vice Admiral Hepburn are entirely uncalled for, misleading and spiteful. . . . Any fool can readily see the innuendo in the first paragraph of the article. Vice Admiral Hepburn does not owe his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet in any degree to the fact that the President and the Secretary of the Navy are old acquaintances...
...recall that it was during King George's reign that the Black & Tans invaded Ireland. . . . Many of my relatives were among the victims of that outrage. ... I had nothing against the King personally, but he represented a symbol not in harmony with our democracy. I intend to protest against the whole thing...
...word memorandum by Premier Mussolini to the League last week, and Captain Eden was understood to be preparing a reply of equal length. Across the Council's green table he and Fascist Chief Delegate Baron Aloisi were mutually affable and smiling. Over Mr. Eden's vehement protest, M. Alexis Leger of France secured adoption of a proviso that further decisions by the League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen are not in themselves operative but "subject to the political decision of the governments." For the first time since Sanctions were adopted, Baron Aloisi was heard to laugh. The conditional assurances...
...angry delegation marched to No. 10 Downing St. in the dead of night to protest to the Prime Minister that the doors of Westminster Hall had been shut against His Majesty's subjects at 3:42 a. m. They were reopened after the cleaners for whom they had been closed had swept up, and in all some 800,000 Britons paid to George V, "the best King who has ever reigned in England," their heartfelt tributes of extraordinary devotion...