Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian note then matched almost line for line the anti-British outburst of Soviet statesmen with similar virulently anti-Russian utterances from Winston Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, and Colonel Amery. Shrewd, M. Litvinov, pointed out that no Anglo-Russian "agreement exists limiting the liberty of the press or speech within the boundaries of either country...
Last fortnight Fisherman McShallis lay at death's vestibule, from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...
...very day of this speech by Belgium's War Minister, the German War Minister, Dr. Otto Gessler, said before the Army Budget Committee of the Reichstag: "The intentions of our neighbor states are not unknown to us. ... They are planning a quick and deep penetration into Germany in the first days of the next war. . . . Our only security is to compose our present army exclusively of men capable of filling officers' ranks at a moment's notice...
This was the exuberant reply of British Labor to a Tory speech made the day before by Sir William at Croydon, in which he shouted: "Certain Socialist (Laborite) leaders are going to end up with their backs against a wall and a firing squad before them if they try to hamper British troops in any Chinese...
Since Great Britain is technically not at war with China, Sir William's speech drew the rebuke "unjustifiable flamboyancy" from even the Conservative Evening Standard...