Word: embroilment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question which troubled the chancelleries of Europe was whether the madly battling Reds and Blacks of Spain would attach from outside enough Socialist-Communist and Fascist-Nazi aid to embroil the interventionists among themselves and light a general European war sooner than is expected...
...publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia's defense. In His Majesty's favorite phrase the entire situation is still "subject to negotiation...
...resignation were accepted under these conditions, Harvard's reputation and prestige would be seriously injured. If it were not accepted, it would embroil the University in the legal and political battle which the administration wishes to avoid...
Coining an urbane phrase in which to describe the efforts of British diplomats in Washington and London to draw the Roosevelt Administration into their way of thinking, Sir Gerald Campbell, popular British Consul General in Manhattan, declared: "We should like to embroil the United States in peace." Added Sir Gerald hastily, "not to protect the British Empire, but to save humanity from itself...
...fine purpose of the Neutrality Act will indeed be thwarted if the government's present attitude is allowed to crystallize into national policy. To carry on trade in commodities, which, after all, are only one degree removed from armaments, promises to embroil the United States in foreign conflicts almost as easily as if there were no embargo at all. In case of a blockade it is important to the blockaders that metals, textiles, and foodstuffs be kept from the closed port as machine guns and explosives themselves...