Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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League. The League of Nations decided not to act on the protest. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League, made the position clear...
...Egyptian protest was apparently a circular telegram sent by the Egyptian Lower House to the other Parliaments and to the League, and it did not therefore fall within the limits...
Later, the League changed its opinion and decided to bring the protest to the attention of the Council. It was not certain, however, if this would be done at the next meeting which takes place this month in Rome...
...bench on the floor of the Assembly was conspicuously empty. The Ministers nodded comprehendingly one to the other; for they were aware that the minority races (Slovaks, Germans, Magyars, Ruthenians) had carried out their oft-declared intention of boycotting the Parliament. Later, the minority Deputies delivered a solemn protest to the world demanding their "fundamental rights." * Thus, debate on the financial situation (most concerned with an unbalanced budget) went on minus the minority Deputies. That did not mean that the Opposition was not present. The Opposition was there, very much there, loudly protesting that per capita taxation was considerably higher...
...Slovaks, as early as the Pittsburgh meeting of 1917. For reasons ascribable to conditions in Central Europe and to the youth of the Republic, none of these promises has been honored. By the Constitution of 1920, the Czecho-Slovak State is a single and indivisible unity. Hence, as a protest, the minority Deputies declined to attend Parliament. ? Austria and Hungary, states contiguous to Czecho-Slovakia, have financial controllers acting under the authority of the League of Nations...