Word: anti-american
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...second diplomatic coup was in 1926. With the franc falling to 3 cents, and no bottom in sight, anti-American sentiment reached a peak. Mr. Herrick took several hundred thousand dollars voted by Congress to purchase a new Embassy and bought francs, all the francs he could, "to show America's belief in the stability of France...
...rejected the new electoral law which the U. S. Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except as moral support...
...Agnosticism and Atheism are the denial of God", said Dr. Straton in his powerful, clear delivery, "and since America is founded on faith in God, they are anti-American. The Pilgrims drafted the charter of the new settlement with the Bible their only guide, and it was devotion to God Almighty that brought them to these shores and sustained them. America is unique in the history of the world in that it is founded on religion...
...series of daily exposures of the innards of international machinations, it has been disclosed that the recent anti-American drive in Nicaragua had its inception under Mexican auspices. This received as little attention in extra-Hearstian circles as did the revelation that the Calles government was adopting Soviet methods in such details as the president's addressing his aides as "comrade". But the last accusation, that Calles paid a Maine lawyer $10,000 to investigate British mine conditions during a strike in order to insure the judicious expenditure of $100,000 which he planned to give in the name...
...fact that this closer cementing of European powers has been accomplished to the accompaniment of a feeling among the assembled diplomats that "We'll show America now." Pan-Europe, as this writer calls the new tendency, may be only his personal pipe-dream; if there was enough anti-American sentiment at Locarno, however, to afford his pipe-dream a foundation, he shows the United States the grave extent of the attitude into which Europe has been falling more and more since...