Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially roused at the dismissal of Assistant Under Secretary Gregory because he is remembered in connection with the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" which hastened the fall of James Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924). Secretary Gregory, without informing Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary MacDonald, despatched a protest against the Zinoviev letter to Moscow. When news of this move reached the British public it was accepted as proof of the genuineness of the Zinoviev letter (now generally considered a forgery) and materially helped to sway the country away from Laborite MacDonald...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
...furious waxed the German protest that the British Foreign Office finally informed the British Board of Film Censors that the licensing and release of Dawn would be "most objectionable." While the Board was expected to follow this hint, British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain thought it necessary to clarify his personal views in an announcement made by his private secretary...
Straightway Sir John Simon, chairman of the Commission, famed Liberal barrister, sat briskly down at his desk, last week, and drew up an offer designed to conciliate 318,940,000 Indians, some thousands of whom rioted in Madras, Calcutta & Bombay last fortnight, in protest against the Commission and notably against the fact that no Indian sits upon...
...still this latter protest Sir John Simon offered, last week, to take Seven Wise Indians into his company of Seven Wise Britons. The Indians, he proposed, could be elected by the Indian Legislative Assembly; and he pledged that they would receive in the Commission "equal status throughout the investigation...