Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and delivered to Japan in the name of the U. S. a vigorous diplomatic kick in the pants. The booting took the form of a long, strong reply to Japan's "unresponsive" answer last November to Secretary Hull's protest against Japan's slamming the open door in China to U. S. trade. Its chief points...
...American Association of Teachers of German, meeting just before M. L. A., had squelched a resolution of sympathy with "victims of fanaticism in Germany." In protest, the New York City chapter threatened to secede from...
...Nuts to You." Next day in answer to this protest, not Cordell Hull, busy in Lima, but Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles received handsome Dr. Thomsen. Two days before, Dr. Thomsen had informed Mr. Welles that Germany, whose currency export restrictions have long barred the transfer of German estate funds to U. S. beneficiaries, had finally agreed that U. S. heirs would henceforth get their money in full, regardless of their race or creed. Dr. Thomsen is himself an amiable and reasonable man, and deliberate Mr. Welles is a career diplomat of frigid temper, conservative habits, impeccable speech...
...Welles said it seemed to him the desire of the German Government to make a protest of this character came with singular ill grace. For the past few months he had followed carefully the German press, which he was sure the Charge d'Affaires could hardly dispute was completely under the influence and dictation of the authorities of the German Government, and he had rarely read more unjustifiable criticism or open attacks on members of another Government...
...many more mouths to feed. As 1938 drew to a close many were the signs that the Nazi economy of exchange control, barter trade, lowered standard of living, "self-sufficiency," was cracking. Nor were signs lacking that many Germans disliked the cruelties of their Government, but were afraid to protest them. Having a hard time to provide enough bread to go round, Führer Hitler was being driven to give the German people another diverting circus. The Nazi controlled press, jumping the rope at the count of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, shrieked insults at real and imagined enemies...