Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Women are to man what men desire them to be-woman is to me an agreeable parenthesis in my busy life; they never have been more, nor can they ever be less. Today, I have no time to punctuate my life with other than work, but in the past, now...
"Austria desired not territory, but merely wished to keep what she had got. In sending an ultimatum to Serbia, she regarded herself as taking a purely defensive action against a people whose desire to cut off the southern provinces of the Hapsburg empire was not concealed. She would have been...
"It was, however, less the misgovernment of the Hapsburg rulers that produces ferment in Croatia and Bosnia, than the rise of a passionate nationalism in those provinces and a desire to unite with men of their own blood and language in the Serbian kingdom. The justification put forward by the...
"The responsibility of Russia in encouraging the ambitions of Serbia in the years before the War, and in helping her at a critical moment must be judged in the light of her position as the leading Slav power in Europe, and as the champion of the small Balkan States. She...
"The responsibility of Germany for producing the war is indirect rather than direct; neither her government nor her people had the slightest desire for a World War. Instead of dragging Austria into the struggle as most people believed a few years ago, she was dragged in by her ally. That...