Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Italy promised many times after the War to respect the language, customs and education of the Germans she was acquiring, scarcely had Fascism begun to operate in Italy before the South Tyrolese became one of the worst treated minorities in Europe. In an effort to Italianize the district, German schools were forbidden, German newspapers outlawed, German place names changed (Bozen, for instance, became Bolzano), even German surnames on tombstones were effaced...
High-spirited, witty, gay, Edda Ciano has little respect for the conventions. In Shanghai she picked up much U. S. slang from Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
...authors of all those loyal letters from Canada, I must say I'm an American, I have as much respect for the King and Queen as any such loyal subject of Canada has for them. Little do the authors of those letters to TIME know (or do they?) that the real purpose of the Royal Visit to Canada was to visit the U. S. and its President. The Royal Visit to the U. S. was the all-important phase of the trip-and we Americans are very proud of the outcome of the Royal Visit...
...friends were ready with an efficiently stage-managed homecoming celebration. The timing was just about perfect. Now was the season for political bands, bunting, oratory, ballyhoo. Here was a candidate who could stride upon the national stage like a handsome Ulysses returning from labors abroad to hurl fear and respect into the hearts of Democracy's home-hugging suitors. It mattered not that the welcoming party was synthetic, that the Candidate's welcome to Indiana was rather warmer than its welcome to him. Now was beginning one of the earliest, boldest, most determined campaigns ever made...
Three weeks ago the victorious Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old Hispanic custom of the right of asylum. Unhispanic indeed sounded the humane statement of the Chilean Foreign Office on the matter: the right of asylum is not a matter of politics, simply a humanitarian principle to avoid useless reprisals. Last week in Santiago, Chile let it be known that victory...