Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms control. Japan made herself very clear in avoiding any arrangement by which she would be hampered in her Eastern marauding; Hungary felt safe in following the lead of Mussolini in taking the position of an "interested observer" of the proceedings. MacDonald of England would, apparently, like to withdraw also but does not dare, the peace pressure being as strong as it is at home. This is a comforting thought, however, for it ensures that though the coterie of "interested observers" grows, there will at least be something left to observe...
...this beat exceptional: when it happened opposition services were still smarting over I. N. S.'s more-than-24-hour scoop on Germany's decision to withdraw from the League of Nations...
...doubts as to the safety, not only of the defendants, but of the attorneys imported in their behalf. That the Scottsboro case, or any other, case involving negroes, should be tried in a cotton belt court, is a hideous and an intolerable thing. But it is very difficult to withdraw such cases from Southern jurisdiction without calling into question the theory of sectional justice which originally places them there...
Japan and Russia move toward war with all the finality and inevitableness of a Greek tragedy. Yesterday Japan intimated unofficially that friction would be most easily reduced if the Soviet would withdraw the large forces which it has concentrated in Siberia. At the same time, in Moscow, Molotov, Russian premier, declared that the USSR was prepared for a surprise attack by Japan, and, in fact, expected it. Both these declarations by statesmen of countries supposedly at peace have almost no precedent, and show with disconcerting clearness how imminent a possibility is war in the Far East...
With the amazing brazenness which has made her famous, Japan, represented by M. Hirota, has demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw her troops from Southern Siberia, since their presence is taken by Tokio as an "unfriendly gesture." Nothing, of course, is further from the Kremlin's mind than to leave the Vladivostok salient wholly unprotected, as Molotov said in so many words, discarding diplomatic disguise. It is perfectly true that the Soviet garrisons and the lower territory itself will be lost instantly when war begins: Manchukuo is so placed that the Japanese will have no trouble whatever in splitting...