Word: bellum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German and Russian orges are the real peacemakers. Foreign Minister Briand talked with Ambassador Loudon of Holland, who is to preside at the conference, and it is believed that Briand requested Loudon to check with his gavel any long speeches by Litvinoff that would quote statistics on the post bellum expenditures of the peaceloving Allies...
...Russo-Polish War, the Upper Silesla affair, the massacre at Smyrna the occupation of Corfu the Geneva protocol the Greco-Bulgarian frontier altercation, and the squabble during last year between Brazil and Spain have been the annual causes of "I told you sols" from the irreconcilables of post-bellum days: largely because the meetings of the League to consider problems have been too tardy...
...black, but France had been the loser, while Belgium in 1918 was one of the conquering nations. Belgium's memory is perhaps so vivid she, like the British general in the Revolutionary War, would cease to exist after another such victory. It is nevertheless a novelty in ante-bellum relations to find the conquered nation attempting to bury the hatchet, while the conqueror earnestly digs it up again. And even if a complete acknowledgement be made of the justification of Belgium's feelings, it is doubtful whether the most intelligent ends are served by the perpetuation of hatred in stone...
...husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word, action and philosophy. It is another young woman's (Miss Thompson is 24) post-bellum retort. It will please many, but to this reviewer the younger characters seem wooden things from the hand of a very self-conscious creator. Not so the elders?Edgar Renner, an anglicized Viennese, and his wife, a sweetly arrogant English girl?with whom Miss Thompson seems more at ease...
...story he has to tell relates to the well-worn topic of War responsibility; but, unlike many post-bellum accounts of ante-bellum diplomacy, it has a human appeal which makes these books more readable and vastly more entertaining than many novels...