Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authoritatively stated, will be as first Lord of the Admiralty where he will replace the resigning Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. The crux of the situation is that Sir Samuel's immense energy and grasp of the international situation has been found indispensable, and that the government will risk overthrow or embarassment in return for his invaluable services...
...expiring law, the President in case of war must declare an embargo on arms, ammunition & implements of war against all belligerents, must forbid U. S. ships to carry munitions directly or indirectly to belligerents. He may forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk, may close U. S. ports to belligerent ships as bases of supply, to belligerent submarines for any purpose. The new bill supplements these provisions by requiring the President to extend the arms embargo to any new participant in a war, to refuse passports to citizens proposing to sail on belligerent...
...Deputies' confidence in his entire foreign policy, which clearly is based on attempted resurrection of The Deal. Close was the vote, but the Premier won a majority of 20. which later rose to 43 on a vote of confidence in his Government. He still stood in grave risk of defeat by a subsequent vote-i. e. he stood where he has stood through 1935. If still Premier at midnight on Dec. 31. Pierre Laval can well consider himself France's Man Of The Year...
Doubtless the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not be held to this exact meaning of his words, but even in the loosest sense he clearly meant that the United Kingdom will not risk the Italian attack which oil sanctions might touch off unless a preponderance of other Great Powers pledge themselves to spring instantly to the armed aid of Britannia at her very first cry of "Help...
Confidence was voted 397 to 165 in His Majesty's Government just before midnight. Nothing contributed more powerfully to this than a firmly chiseled passage in which Sir Samuel Hoare had shown that the application of oil sanctions entails a supreme risk not only of world war in a few weeks or months but of an immediate, an almost instantaneous Italo-British war. Elsewhere in his speech "Flying Sam," personally a sportsman of courage, denied that Great Britain is afraid, but he won not a few votes for Squire Baldwin by chilling the marrow of the King-Emperor...