Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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China has always been a fertile field for the sowing of "spheres of influence"; and since the almost complete apportionment of Africa, Asia assumes dangerous significance. Raw material must be had; and with the supply to severely limited, conflict is inevitable. As Africa was dominant among the powerful economic causes of the last war. China will be the prize in the next--if men permit another such confiagration. And who shall prevent the outbreak, with Russia and Japan pitted against the four great powers of Europe? America's ostensibly disinterested policy in the Far East would necessarily be given...
...Economic conflict is inevitable, and none but the keenest foresight can prevent the nations' resorting to arms. If England rejects organizations for peace in favor of organization for war, war she will have, and all the world with her; for adoption of Mr. Chamberlain's proposal, will mean the re-establishment of that notoriously delicate balance of power...
...Nichols assumes here, as he does in the rest of his article, that there is a bitter conflict between scholarship and athletics in the University; and that excellence in the former is incompatible with prestige in the latter. He supposes that President Lowell's development of the tutorial system and his hopes for its fostering of scholarship are regarded by alumni as a blow at athletic superiority and a cause of the University's recent defeats in major sport contests. Absurd as all this sounds, Mr. Nichols goes even further. He implies that the tempest of criticism which has stormed...
...which followed between Peru and Chili over control of this new source of wealth is mentioned by Robert Bakeless in his prize essay on the economic causes of war as a clear example of the place of economic factors in stirring up armed conflict. The operations between Chili and Peru which terminated with the Treaty of Ancon in 1883 no doubt support his main thesis; but the settlement of the present dispute by the United States reveals its inadequacy. Economic rivalry may be a source of bitterness and quarrel; but that without more ado war will inevitably result from such...
...wisdom of the State Department's restriction may be questioned, but its legal authority is less assailable. A great deal of discretion rests with consuls in the granting of visas. A consul has a right to refuse a visa to anyone likely to come into conflict with the laws of the U. S?as, for example, a person who might advocate overthrow of the U. S. Government or the practice of polygamy. It is very dubius whether Count Karolyi, unmuzzled, would do such things...