Word: accompli
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...Nationalists, however, were angered. They recalled that Dr. von Prittwitz welcomed the advent of the German Republic in 1918 a trifle too enthusiastically and that even now, as a Democrat, he was a member of the November Ninth Club, a republican organization. Faced by a fait accompli, however, they drew in their horns and decided for the most part to "await events" before passing judgment...
Since the present relations of the U. S. and Turkey are more than usually amicable (due to Admiral Bristol) there remains for his successor chiefly the task of devising with Turkish statesmen some means whereby the U. S. Senate may eventually be brought to recognize as a fait accompli the post-War status of Turkey. Other nations have done this by ratifying the Lausanne Treaty, but the U. S. continues to refuse, chiefly because many U. S. clergymen still heatedly allege the "oppression" of Christians in Turkey...
...issue was Monarchy vs. Republic, although there is no question of an immediate restoration of the Hohenzollerns). About 45% of the people remain attached to the Republican régime, although the Catholics, forming about 30% of the Republican vote, could certainly be expected to sup port a Monarchical fait accompli. Something under 8% of the people favor a dictatorship of the proletariat...
...some for the whites, some for the Negroes. Each in his own territorial sphere is to be allowed independently to work out his own salvation; but the matter of employing whites or Negroes in either of the several tracts is to be self-determined. When segregation becomes a fait accompli, the native (the Cape Town native already has the franchise) is to be enfranchised...
Issue. As in the U. S. and Britain, there is a scarcity of issues in the German campaign. At the last election the paramount issue was acceptance or rejection of the Experts' Plan. At this election the Plan is a fait accompli and, with the exception of the Freedom Party and the Communists, every shade of political accepts, willingly or unwillingly, the necessity of supporting it. Reports that the Nationalists are hostile to the Plan and seek to reject it are mainly propaganda...