Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disclosed in Moscow was what the Dictator did tell his Politburo on Aug. 19, when he presumably explained why it was expedient for Russia to rebuff Anglo-French peace overtures and sign up with Germany on the eve of World War II. Havas had quoted Stalin as saying...
...This rebuff left Federation officials with the problems of: 1) 700 disappointed delegates, who had looked forward to fun in Rio, and 2) where to hold their meeting. Last week they neatly got around their difficulty. Accepting the Government's explanation that the invitation had been withdrawn, not for political reasons, but only because a new convention hall had not been completed, they decided to go to Rio for their fun, hold their meetings afterward on the homeward cruising S. S. Rotterdam...
Although feigning indifference, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy showed last week their pleasure at the temporary rebuff France and Britain got in Moscow. In London and Paris, it was said, Foreign Commissar Molotov's speech (and his note rejecting the British proposals which followed it) was a "disappointment," but they would try, try again. Apparently they were still trying as the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Cabinet with the approval of the French Cabinet, batted the ball back to the Russians, decided that offers of guarantees to Latvia, Estonia & Finland would be made only if those States asked...
...same rebuff his successor, Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard, resigned...
Reactions. The Nazi press naturally declared that Herr Hitler's speech was a master work. Exulted the Fuhrer's own Volkischer Beobachter: "The entire world was earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to ask, 'Who would dare speak today about Roosevelt's message?' One thing is clear: Roosevelt's role as Europe's guardian angel is over...