Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good part, the editorial substance of the Ledger. The Bowling Green, on which Christopher Morley played so many jovial games of literary nine pins, had been subdivided into small lots, on which Clinton W. Gilbert, author of The Mirrors of Washington ana correspondent of the Ledger, paragraphed with brutal frankness about Washington politics. Last but not least, the face value of the issue was changed from...
...much opportunism has crept into the system of the body politic of today and in one form or another the human beings of today are demonstrating the old brutal principle of might is right. By force we are trying to establish peace. By deception we except to establish credit. Indulging in an ordinary butchery of the human race our politicians promise to evolve the brotherhood of man! ! All this evil has to be stopped; evil can never be remedied by evil but by truth. 'Love', says Mr. Gandhi, 'alone can conquer and the conquest of a true love is eternal...
...Rhineland, as all over Germany, the people are suffering from nine years of famine. In addition they have been subjected to a brutal military occupation, whereby the Rhineland has been completely isolated from Germany as a whole. The civil government, contrary to the stipulations of the Treaty, has been practically taken over by the French army of occupation, travel and the interchange of news has been forbidden. Physically and intellectually the Rhinelanders have been cut off from the rest of Germany; thousands have been expelled...
Frankfurt-am-Main was the scene of violent Communist rioting, which resulted in the brutal murder of Dr. Haas, Federal District Attorney. Many people were wounded...
Bitter anti-Zionism that results in the brutal murder of British Bobbies...