Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unknown Soldier. A quiet glance at the Indian wikiup in Vice President Curtis' office. More formal calls, and Premier Laval moved into the White House for 18 hours of residence and sweating work. On the third day Guest Laval moved to stop overnight at Woodley, sylvan retreat of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. There the work, ceaseless and secret, went...
...Borah's diplomatic encounters were not yet over. He attended the French Embassy reception in honor of the Premier, and there Ambassador Tytus Filipowicz of Poland seized him by the buttonhole. Mr. Borah is no man to retreat. He repeated his opinions on the Polish Corridor, but added by way of diplomacy that he did not pretend to be completely informed. Ambassador Filipowicz drew himself up in his diplomatic uniform, with all his decorations jangling, and made the retort courteous: "I congratulate you, Senator, on your moral courage-in admitting the incompleteness of your knowledge...
...bearing brickbats which they presented to Sir Ronald Storrs through his bedroom window (Lady Storrs was asleep in England). In five minutes brickbatters had spattered every windowpane in Government House to splinters. Sir Ronald & staff, leaping for their trousers, escaped in disorder while a handful of police covered their retreat...
...author quotes numerous secret diplomatic dispatches from Tokio to Washington during the Washington Conference, which were decoded and translated, showing that a policy of delay on the part of the British and Americans was sure to force the Japanese to retreat, as they did, from their demand for a ten-to-seven ratio. From this one would conclude, that, with the Black Chamber closed, the United States went into the London Naval Conference and will go into any future conference at a disadvantage, unless foreign powers follow Secretary Stimpson's example, "Stud poker is not a very difficult game after...
...defend the editorials of the paper. It may, however, be pointed out that suppression from above usually side rather than hinders a cause and that in frank self-criticism lie the germs of self-improvement. It is to be hoped that the editors of the student paper will not retreat in the face of high-handed action...