Word: corfu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ways and methods, but in the victory which they seem to be winning they are creating situations which will make for a more terrible war. If every time an incident, great or small, arises, the powerful nations resort to violence, there can be no peace. Nicaragua, Haiti, Amritsar, Rubr, Corfu, Egypt all involved a resort, to force upon the part of the great and powerful nations against the unarmed and helpless. In all of these instances the aggressor nation was strong enough and powerful enough to have invoked conciliation, adjustment, and arbitration, and thus to have set examples and established...
...hundred Knights and Ladies decided to charter a special steam yacht and cruise to the Mediterranean?there to visit the ancient strongholds of the order at Corfu, Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta and of course, Jerusalem. Those in the know excitedly let fall that among the announced female pilgrims are the Countess of Cromer, the Dowager Countess of Airlie, the Countess Haig and Lady Nunburnholme. Stout Knights who promised their escort included the Earl of Scarborough, Viscount Galway, Lord Lamington and Lord Treowen...
Time was when such news would have been the signal for a general alarm. Incidents like the burning of Smyrna or the Corfu assassinations monopolized the front pages of the large journals for days, while editorial Cassandras warned their readers that they were standing upon the brink of another world conflict...
...Corfu. "Here was a case of a bitter quarrel between two nations caused by an occurrence of the most deplorable character, the murder of four Italian officers on Greek territory. It was the kind of case which in the past had often produced, if not actual war, at any rate prolonged embitterment of international relations. Yet in a very few weeks the matter was adjusted, partly by the League and partly by another international body, the Conference of Ambassadors...
...Poland and Lithuania, Poland and Germany, Jugo Slavia and Albania, and Italy and Greece have all been satisfactorily settled," he declared, "and war, which threatened in each case, has been averted. I have never seen a time so intense, a time so difficult to resist hysteria, as when the Corfu question was being discussed. There has been much comment in regard to the inability of the League to handle this dispute, but I have never heard an intelligent person say that the world would have been better if the League had not existed at that time. This quarrel...