Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, few Americans know that it required more than 395,000 Americans to defeat 20,000 British soldiers in the Revolution and that our National Capitol was burned in the War of 1812, although more than 527,000 Americans were engaged in that conflict and the British at no time had more than 17,000 soldiers in this country...
...stable, but the friction between the pro-German Constantine and the pro-Entente Venizelos was the beginning and the end of this modest stability. The King was outwardly neutral and inwardly in favor of entering the War on the side of Germany. Venizelos was wholeheartedly for intervening in the conflict on the side of the Allies. There was not room for Constantine and his Premier, so Venizelos was dismissed. For two years, cabinet succeeded cabinet with bewildering rapidity until Constantine was himself dismissed. His son Alexandros succeeded to the throne, but later a monkey bit him and he died...
Italy and Rumania come in for two scorching chapters. Both are accused of bargaining with both sides and staying out of the conflict until they were certain of how the wind was blowing. Italy, it appears, illegally and immorally broke the alliance with Austria and Germany...
...events of the past week must be read in this light. They are, unfortunately, in conflict with Occidental interests, and are endangering the lives of Western people and the Japanese who have largely absorbed Western culture. But, nonetheless, the movement is essentially one for liberty and as such should not fail to command a degree of sympathy, no matter how difficult that is, in all democratic countries...
...Paris, concern over the expense of conducting the war was manifest in official and business circles. It is now six weeks since the conflict began; and, judging from the appropriations asked by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux (100,000,000 francs, covering a period of three months), there is no immediate prospect of defeating the Riff rebels. Meantime, the franc depreciates in value and finance reforms daily become more difficult...