Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his address Count Volpi strikingly exhibited the fact that there are two opposed concepts of a debt. The first, generally professed by Anglo-Saxons, is that of an obligation which must be met simply because it exists. The second, based by Latins on experience, is to regard the entire voluntary repayment of a debt as a phenomenon both mystical and meritorious. Said Count Volpi...
Speaking for the Liberal Opposition, onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George blamed the Government for omitting to mention the "disastrous failure" of the Foreign Office in permitting a breakdown of the Anglo-U. S. negotiations at the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, Aug. 15 et ante...
...things to emphasize in the navel disarmament problem is that the conflict is not merely Anglo-American, as most people suppose, but that it concerns the entire world...
...America would participate in disastrous war merely because of dissension over debt settlement, oil rights, or the sovereignty of Chicago. But with Admiral Plunketts and their British prototypes allowed free rein, the eventuality becomes possible. In 1908, it has been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will...
Soon prudent gourmets of celebrity turned from the Count back to his writings, pondered once more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...