Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably many Dutch would support them. The English might even take up weapons and rebel [against the Dominion Government]. . . . I do not think that England and the other Dominions would resort to force...
...Nationalist protest was lodged with the Occidental consuls, at Shanghai last week, against British-fostered greyhound racing in that city. So popular have the races & betting become that they are denounced as "leading to the impoverishment of the common people of Shanghai for the benefit of foreigners...
Certainly this view is strengthened by the peculiar attitude of Socialist-Novelist Mussolini toward the mob which he raises against Claudia the courtesan. The mob, he declares, "represented the poorest classes, excitable, impulsive, sentimental. They are the classes which patiently endure economic slavery without protest and then burst into revolt over some moral issue...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin cabled a stern protest to Bucharest, last week, protesting a high-handed sale by the Rumanian Government of some 200 small Soviet steamers and fishing boats, which have been seized in Rumanian waters...
Since the Prime Minister of Rumania, bearded, bulking, bowed Vintila Bratiano, mortally hates but does not fear the Soviet Power, he ignored Tchitcherin's protest...