Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge indemnity. Would she not leap at a chance to cancel it? Moral influence would be no deterrent; and furthermore Germany's desire for world domination is not gone, nor is it dormant. So evident is it, that in the minds of men of closest perception working amidst the Germans over there is the almost universal conviction that the war ended three months too soon. Germany made the War in an attempt for world domination and she still keeps that ambition in her mind, and adds to it according to some inexplicable philosophizing, a further incentive of revenge...
...defeat of Venizelos makes a return-of anyone of his party inconceivable. On the other hand, the royalist party is hesitating in its plan for the triumphal entry of ex-King Constantine. There was something ominous in the report that Constantine's valets brought the royal trunks to Athens amidst great rejoicing just as the French ambassador was packing his so as to-be prepared for the arrival of the ex-King. No doubt remains as to the position of the three great European powers with the publishing of the note warning that "restoration of the throne of Greece...