Word: bellum
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...Henry T. Allen, quondam Commander of the American Occupation Force: "The world has learned much more of the interdependence of States. It has learned that Europe cannot proceed properly along the road of moral and physical restoration without our participation in the great unsettled post-bellum measures...
Book I of Britain's history contains a short chapter on " an outline of British History to 1914"; the remainder is devoted to a study of the War and of conditions in the circum-bellum periods...
...armistice, when that 'unity of front', which was so marked during the War, no longer existed. We were especially disappointed in the disagreement of the United States Senate with the President over the treaty. We could not see why America should be unwilling to help solve the great post bellum problems. But there was in France no deep or widespread ill-feeling for the United States because we realized that the United States had entered the conflict with such disinterested motives and under such unusual conditions. Above all, there was such a deep feeling of gratitude for America's help...
...orders, and this was true whether he served in the armed forces or as a civilian. But with the ceasing of hostilities this singleness of aim has changed, as man again becomes a self-directed unit. Unity of effort has been succeeded by dispersion of aims, due to post-bellum reversion to self-determination, both of ends to pursue and means to obtain them...
Yale University plans to hold the greatest Commencement it has ever had this year. Normally about twenty classes return to New Haven for reunions, but fifty-seven classes will celebrate the first post-bellum Commencement next week. It is expected that at least 4,000 graduates will return, and in order to accommodate this number several of the dormitories will be used...