Word: rebuff
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Zita has eight healthy offspring, five of them boys. They range from Otto. 21, down through Adelaide, Robert. Felix, Karl, Rudolf and Charlotte to Elizabeth, 12 (see cut}. Lest the negotiations break down and Otto suffer a rebuff, Zita sent him recently to Scandinavia where he was hunting elk as the guest of Sweden's toothy old King Gustaf...
When this rebuff, wrapped up in courteous Turkish "regrets," was flashed to London the British Government merely instructed Sir Percy to ask for a joint Anglo-Turkish inquiry into the killing of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. To this the Turkish Government grudgingly agreed, stiffly called this minimum request a "most unusual procedure...
...Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...
This diplomatic encouragement to start the flow of U. S. machinery to U. S. S. R. -on credit-received a rude rebuff three days later. Secretary Hull, who recently had the pleasure of recognizing Russia, might have been expected to respond by using the State Department's unofficial power to O. K. loans to the Soviet by U. S. bankers. But last week the House of Representatives quietly passed Senator Johnson's bill forbidding the making of loans to any government in default to the U, S. The Kerensky Government left a legacy of $187,000,000 owing...
Since it takes two-thirds of the Senate to ratify a treaty and since one-half the Senate does not want this Waterway, the President risked a humiliating rebuff...