Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent overtures from the League have caused Spain to withdraw her threat to withdraw (TIME, April 2). The fact that Brazil's latest note was kept secret by the League for a whole month suggests how many last minute efforts have been made to get Brazil to reconsider...
...This threat of the consequences of a machine-mad age is most engaging. But more of a piece with the author's widely read A Passage to India is the title story. An elderly authoress returns to the Swiss village that she has made famous through one of her stories, finds that the lanky porter-guide whose impulsive love she had rebuffed years before has turned into a paunchy obsequious concierge. To her horror she realizes that she has loved the man all these years, and that it is her fault he and his village have become so disgustingly...
...action" thus cryptically threatened was understood to be the blockading by battleships Warspite and Valiant of the customs offices at Alexandria and Port Said, from which the Egyptian Government derives a major portion of its revenue. Faced with such a threat-to-pocket, Prime Minister Nahass Pasha yielded inevitably, but sought to save the face of Egypt by promising merely that action upon the Public Assemblies Bill would be "postponed." To this equivocal capitulation His Britannic Majesty's Government sternly replied that they "would again be obliged to intervene ... if ... the Public Assemblies Bill were to be revived...
Paradoxically the drafter of Britain's ultimatum and threat to intervene was Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain who recently received a Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). In the House of Commons, last week, Sir Austen bared his imperfect teeth in a wolfish smile when Opposition back benchers shouted that he was "Bullying Egypt!" With the crisis safely passed, however, he beamingly announced that Empire sea hounds Warspite and Valiant had been ordered back to their kennel at Malta...
...Finally last week Cinema Censor Hays let his anger mount and began to threaten. He announced that he had booked passage for the U. S., and that upon the day he sailed the U. S. film industry would suspend all business in the French market. The potency of this threat lay in the fact that France does not yet produce sufficient cinema dramas to supply even one-third of her own demand. Therefore if the U. S. film industry boycotted France some 8,000 French cinema theatre employes would shortly be thrown out of work. When that aspect...