Word: casus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of these policies, which lot her future schedule with Harvard uncertain, is unfortunate; but the manner and extent of the break were of her own choosing. A Harvard Lampoon editorial and murmurs of dirty football hardly entered into the situation except as the former furnished a convenient casus belli for the Princeton authorities. The breach was inevitable as long as Princeton insisted on being recognized as of equal importance with Yale, not can it be healed as long as this attitude prevails. However, the merits of the controversy are of small import compared with the value in forcing...
...Versailles. The French Nationalists were of two views. On one hand, they had negotiated a series of alliances on the Continent which were designed to insure French ascendancy. They were told that the main advantage of the proposed five-power pact was that Britain would consider as a casus belli any violation of that pact. This, they argued, was accepting British protection and surrendering French continental supremacy. On the other hand, they were cynical of making any paper agreement with Germany, pointing to the fate of the Treaty of London guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium. After making the reservations that...