Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Uruguay has two proposals on the agenda. First, she will offer a plan for an Association of American States-composed not only of the sovereign states of the continent but of those dependent politically on European countries. The aim of the proposed Association is to prevent war by means of financial, economic, and diplomatic blockades...
...aim of the committee is to stimulate interest among University men in these conferences at which religious, social, and moral problems of general interest are discussed by the men who attend the gatherings...
Hugo Stinnes. Crafty, potent, indurate, Herr Hugo Stinnes, coal magnate, multimillionaire, present " All-Highest " of Germany, plots a coal victory in the Ruhr. His aim is the control of the European steel industries, and, like all mysterious figures who move in the no-man's-land of international politics, he stands to win whichever side comes...
...that the real object of the Ruhr is to speed up coal deliveries, which seems tantamount to admitting defeat. They have, however, decided to requisition coal in the pits with their own labor backed by force, if the mine owners fail to pay a coal tax. But the true aim of the French and Belgians seems to be a separate agreement with Germany and the abandonment of the Versailles treaty...
...seem to believe that a modern Aquinas will join Christian discovery and scientific discovery into a unity of aim which will command the allegiance of both head and heart. Or perhaps a John Wesley (who founded Methodism in the days of sophisticated Fox, Pitt, Catherine II, and the French Revolution) will re-emotionalize religion...