Word: protocole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because it was more subtle, the Japanese marked the occasion by going full-out for the skins of all the foreigners in China except themselves. Instead of using long-swords and rifles, the Japanese advanced on foreign citizens and interests with high-explosive accusations, brickbats of propaganda, bolts of protocol. The campaign was far less spectacular but far more important than the local Boxer Uprising. By last week the three burning unknowns in the truly World War were Russia, Japan, the U. S. Japan's diplomatic offensive touched off an intricate interplay which threatened...
Subject to possible changes to be made by a joint treaty commission this week. thus ended the Russo-Finnish War. The Finnish Diet ratified the terms 145-to-3.* Obeying the terms of a protocol appended to the peace treaty, 100,000 Finns still remaining in the ceded areas at once started a sad march out of bigger-than-ever Russia into an even smaller Finland-carrying their babies and chattels, driving their few remaining cows and horses. The narrow roads and war-taxed railroads clogged up. Snow fell, gales raged. Defense Minister Juho Niukkanen resigned from the Cabinet partly...
...Herr Ribbentrop and not the Pope who sought the meeting. German sources in Rome predicted that the Foreign Minister would not discuss Poland; Vatican sources retorted that it is not the visitor who decides what will be discussed at a Papal audience but the Pope himself. Age-old protocol sternly prohibits a visitor from bringing up new subjects before His Holiness...
...glacial, able, pompous Assistant Secretary, Sumner Welles, sat brooding in their rooms in Alvear Palace. Mr. Hull had decided that some other nation must present the U. S. plan, and do the "fronting" for it, as a mere matter of strategy. It was 10:30 p. m. Protocol-minded Mr. Welles insisted nothing could be done that night. But to his horror, his worried chief shoved his feet into carpet slippers, his pajama coat dangling over his trousers, wandered out into the marble corridors...